Distributed Systems Engineer for AI Infrastructure

Stealth Startup; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stealth Startup is seeking a Systems Engineer to build reliable, scalable infrastructure for our AI-native software engineering platform. You will work on distributed backend services, storage systems, networking, and performance optimization.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving low-level systems problems, optimizing performance, and building infrastructure that supports millions of code analysis operations.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend or systems engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Rust, Go, C++, or Java.
• Experience building distributed systems and microservices.
• Linux systems programming and networking fundamentals.
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred).
• Excellent system design and debugging skills.
• Proven ownership of production infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance distributed backend systems.
• Develop scalable APIs and services for AI-powered code intelligence.
• Optimize latency, concurrency, and resource utilization across production infrastructure.
• Build reliable storage and data processing pipelines for large code repositories.
• Improve observability through logging, monitoring, and performance diagnostics.
• Collaborate with ML Engineers to support model serving and inference infrastructure.
• Contribute to system architecture, reliability, and security best practices.

Skills

Distributed systems

Rust

Go

C++

Java

Linux

AWS

System design

Debugging

Production ownership

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Stealth Startup is seeking a Systems Engineer to build reliable, scalable infrastructure for our AI-native software engineering platform. You will work on distributed backend services, storage systems, networking, and performance optimization.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving low-level systems problems, optimizing performance, and building infrastructure that supports millions of code analysis operations.