Distributed Systems Engineer

Beam; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Health, dental, vision benefits

Events in cloud native community

Fitness stipend

Learning budget

Job summary

Beam is seeking a Platform Engineer to help advance our ultrafast AI inference platform. You’ll work on low‑level systems, container runtimes, and GPU‑backed workloads across clouds.

Our backend is Go with some Python; your work will impact millions of users worldwide, and you’ll collaborate closely with customers while contributing to open source and cloud‑native tooling.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience with a large distributed system.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience writing Go or Rust.
• Familiar with gRPC, Helm/Kustomize, and Terraform.
• Eager to collaborate closely with customers.
• Strong interest in cloud-native tech and open source.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Go

Rust

gRPC

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

Customer collaboration

Cloud-native

Open source

Tools

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

Beam is an ultrafast AI inference platform. We built a serverless runtime that launches GPU‑backed containers in less than 1 second and quickly scales out to thousands of GPUs. Developers use our platform to serve apps to millions of users around the globe. We’re backed by Y Combinator, Tiger Global, and prominent developer‑tool founders, including the founder of Snyk and former CTO of GitHub.

About The Role

We’re looking to hire someone to help us with Platform Engineering work. We’re working on lots of fun problems:

• Low‑level systems development: working with container runtimes, OCI image formats, and lazy‑loading large files from content addressable storage
• Efficiently packing thousands of workloads into GPUs across multiple clouds
• Working with cutting‑edge technologies, like GPU checkpoint restore and CRIU

Our backend is mostly in Go, with some Python. Your work will directly impact millions of users around the world.

Skills & Experience

• 3-5 years of experience working with a large distributed system
• Comfortable with Kubernetes
• Experience writing a statically typed language, like Golang or Rust
• Familiarity with things like gRPC, Helm/Kustomize, and Terraform
• Excited to collaborate closely with customers
• Enthusiasm for developer tools, cloud native technologies, and open source software

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Join a fast‑growing pre‑series A company at the ground floor
• Health, dental, and vision benefits with 90% coverage for you and 50% for dependents
• Opportunities to participate in events across the cloud native community
• Fitness stipend, learning budget, and much, much more