Company

AI

DistributedSystemsEngineer

$200–300k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Distributed Systems Engineer. Skills: Distributed Systems, Backend Services, AI/LLM Tools Runtime and Registry, Production-grade software development, SDKs and frameworks for developers. Build the infrastructure to manage the backplane for all future AI tools. Design, build, test, and deploy high-performance, secure, production-grade software”

What You'll Achieve.

Transform AI from just chatbots to agents that can take actions against real systems

Industry & Context.

AI
Problems you'll solve

Solving the unique problems of AI/LLM usage

Eligibility Requirements

In-person role located in our San Francisco (SOMA) office

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years of software engineering experience, 5+ years of backend development experience with either Python, Go, Ruby, Typescript, or a similar language and API & Web frameworks, 2+ years of experience with infrastructure and deployment (AWS/GCP, Terraform, Helm, etc), experience building and maintaining production APIs, Track record of writing clean, well-documented, well-tested code, User-centered approach to designing developer-centric products and tools

Nice to Have

Experience building developer tools or SDKs, Familiarity with LLMs and AI frameworks (Langchain, LlamaIndex, etc), Open-source contributions, Experience with high-scale distributed systems, Experience leading teams and mentoring more junior developers, Familiarity with Typescript and a relevant frontend framework (e. g. React), You’ve been a startup founder or early-state startup employee before and love it

What You'll Do.

Build the infrastructure to manage the backplane for all future AI tools

and deploy high-performance

production-grade software

Develop SDKs and frameworks that make it easy for other developers to build custom tools

Help set industry standards for tool calling and authorization

Create integrations with major platforms and LLMs (Google Workspace

Shape the roadmap for the team

Build leverage (via AI) - projects that take a week today should take a day next time

Share your work with our customers and community

building our (and your) brand

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Teach knowledge to the team

Communication Scope

Share your work with our customers and community

Full Job Description

Everyone's talking about AI. But here's the truth: ChatGPT can't send your emails. It can't book your flights. It can't even order you lunch. Why? Because AI is trapped in a chat box. It can't take real actions in the real world.  We are changing that forever. We're not just building another AI company - we're creating the infrastructure that will power every AI application you'll use in the future.   The Revolution Needs You Every AI app needs agentic "tools" - special functions that let AI models take real actions. Without tools, AI can only chat. With tools, AI can actually do things. We're building the definitive tools catalog and tool-calling platform that will unlock AI's true potential.  Think Zapier for AI Actions. Think Auth0 for AI. Think really big.   Why This Is The Opportunity of a Lifetime - Founder-Market Fit : Our CEO previously founded Stormpath (acquired by Okta), where he created the first Authentication API for developers. He's done this before - and this time the market is 10x bigger. Our CTO led the vector database team at Redis, shipped 100+ LLM applications, and is a contributor to LangChain and LlamaIndex. He knows this space better than anyone.  - Dream Team : We've assembled authentication, integrations, distributed systems, and AI experts from Okta, Redis, Microsoft, Splunk, Ngrok, Google, Airbyte, Disney, and HPE who've built and founded multiple successful developer platforms.  - Perfect Timing : We're at the inflection point of AI adoption. The biggest problem isn't better models - it's connecting AI to real-world actions. That's us. - Massive Market : We're building critical infrastructure for the biggest technological shift of our generation. Every AI app will need what we're building. - Backed By The Best: Our investors have backed Databricks, Clickhouse, MongoDB, Perplexity, Cohere, ScaleAI, Confluent, Elastic, and Firebase. They see what we see - this is going to be huge.   The Challenge We are building the runtime and registry fo

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