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Infrastructure Engineer, Distributed Systems

San Francisco, CA Direct Hire Other $180,000 - $280,000

Job Summary

Infrastructure engineer role focused on building and operating high-concurrency distributed systems that support simulation environments. The position involves maintaining production infrastructure at scale and optimizing performance for thousands of concurrent sessions.

Essential Functions

  • Operate distributed infrastructure supporting high-concurrency simulation environments
  • Maintain and scale Firecracker microVM orchestration and bare metal compute clusters
  • Build and improve high-throughput distributed storage and queuing systems
  • Design and operate telemetry, logging, and observability systems
  • Improve reliability, cold starts, uptime, and cost efficiency across the infrastructure stack
  • Partner with research engineers to integrate training pipelines with infrastructure
  • Handle on-call responsibilities for critical customer workloads
  • Drive cost optimization and performance improvements

Required Qualifications

  • 3 to 8 years of experience in distributed systems or infrastructure engineering
  • Experience maintaining and scaling high-stakes production infrastructure
  • Experience with storage-efficient snapshotting, copy-on-write, or forkable state systems
  • Experience scaling infrastructure at a later-stage startup
  • 2+ years of big tech infrastructure experience
  • Large-scale distributed systems experience including queuing and distributed storage
  • Bare metal compute and Linux kernel-level experience
  • Proficiency in Python with Rust familiarity
  • Experience with VM or container orchestration
  • Experience building telemetry or observability pipelines at scale

Preferred Qualifications

  • Computer science degree
  • Experience with AI or ML infrastructure workloads
  • Experience converting real-world data streams into simulations
  • Experience with sandbox environments at scale

Technical Skills

  • Python
  • Rust
  • Firecracker microVMs
  • Bare metal compute
  • Linux kernel configuration
  • Redis
  • Distributed storage systems
  • VM orchestration
  • Observability and telemetry pipelines
  • High-throughput queuing systems

Education & Certifications

Computer science degree preferred but not required.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range $180,000 to $250,000.

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