Distributed Systems Engineer / AI Security Startup

TrustIn; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 450,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Meaningful equity

High-impact work

Job summary

An early-stage AI infrastructure company in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to design and scale their core platform used by thousands of developers. This senior role focuses on distributed systems components, emphasizing performance and reliability. Candidates should have 8+ years in the domain and strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Rust, or C++. The position offers competitive compensation and equity options.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in distributed systems or low-level infrastructure.
• Strong experience with programming languages like Go, Rust, or C++.
• Solid understanding of networking, concurrency, and distributed algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of major distributed systems components focusing on performance.
• Design and scale the core platform for AI tools.
• Work on distributed execution runtimes and low-latency control planes.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Rust

C++

Concurrency

Networking

Distributed algorithms

Startup experience

Job description

Staff Distributed Systems Engineer — AI Infrastructure (Open Source) / up to $500k

We’re an early-stage, well-funded AI infrastructure company operating in stealth.

Our open-source projects have tens of thousands of GitHub stars and are used widely across the AI developer ecosystem.

We’re hiring a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to help design and scale the core platform behind these tools.

Role Overview

You’ll take ownership of major distributed systems components, with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability. This is a senior technical role with architectural responsibility.

You’ll work on:

• Distributed execution runtimes for epoxy AI workloads
• Low-latency control planes and coordination services
• Scheduling, isolation, and resource management
• Systems optimisation across compute, network, and storage
• Contributing to and maintaining key open-source projects

Requirements

• 8+ years in distributed systems or low-level infrastructure
• Startup experience building a product or outside of your work, side projects that are related to your passion for technology.
• Strong experience with Go, Rust, or C++
• Solid understanding of concurrency, networking, and distributed algorithms
• Experience with large-scale systems and production reliability
• Comfortable working in open-source environments

Nice to have: micro-VMs, container isolation, serverless/ephemeral compute, WASM, ML infra.

Why Join

• High-impact work used by thousands of developers
• Greenfield architecture with no legacy constraints
• Competitive compensation + meaningful equity