Dedalus Labs
Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco · Full-time
H1B sponsorship availableDetected 22 days ago
C++Distributed SystemsAlgorithmsKubernetesAgentic AIDesign SystemsLogisticsSystems EngineeringResearch
About the role
- TASTE You know the difference between a distributed system that works and one that continues working when everything goes wrong.
- TIPS The first thing we look at is your GitHub.
- Show us distributed systems you've built.
Responsibilities
- Building scheduling infrastructure that efficiently allocates compute across thousands of concurrent agents.
- Building infrastructure that makes operating AI agents dramatically simpler for developers.
- Experience building distributed systems in industry, research, or open source.
- Ability to design systems that remain reliable under production workloads.
- Relocation support available.
Requirements
- Experience with Kubernetes and modern cloud infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed storage systems.
- Familiarity with consistency models, consensus algorithms, or replication protocols.
- Experience with virtualization, hypervisors, containers, or Firecracker.
- Kernel, operating systems, or low-level runtime experience.
- Experience operating infrastructure at production scale.
- Published systems research (NSDI, OSDI, SOSP, EuroSys, ATC, etc.).
- Contributions to systems-focused open-source projects.
- Experience with performance engineering and systems optimization.
Skills
- Think distributed systems are one of computer science's most beautiful subjects.
- Care deeply about consistency, fault tolerance, and system correctness.
- Enjoy designing systems before writing them.
- Think latency, throughput, and reliability are all product features.
- Read systems papers because they're genuinely interesting.
- Have strong opinions about storage engines, consensus algorithms, scheduling, or distributed architecture.
- Think every abstraction has a cost.
- Measure before optimizing, then optimize relentlessly.
- View infrastructure as a product for other engineers.
- Are high agency and fiercely independent.
- Are a competitive teammate with a heart of gold.
- Are hungry to learn, improve, and reflect deeply on feedback.
Compensation
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
- Meals and office benefits included.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We sponsor visas
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