Lead Distributed Systems Engineer — High-Scale Platform

Fuel Talent LLC; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Fuel Talent LLC seeks a Principal Engineer for distributed systems in Seattle, WA. This role is hybrid, requiring 2–4 days onsite, and offers a base salary of $160,000–$200,000 with up to 1% equity.

You will own and operate a major vertical of a high-scale infrastructure platform handling AI workloads and large data sets. You will design systems that stay fair, observable, and predictable under contention, and you will write production code, troubleshoot performance issues, and drive operational

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating high-volume, low-latency services on shared infrastructure.
• Understanding of multi-tenant workloads and fair resource sharing.
• Familiarity with end-to-end production ownership: code, deployment, observability, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Own, operate, and improve major vertical of a high-scale distributed infrastructure platform.
• Write production code and investigate performance and reliability issues.
• Operate what you build and establish patterns for others to follow.
• Ensure isolation and fair admission for large customer workloads across services.

Skills

Distributed systems

Workload isolation

Admission control

Tail-latency

Reliability

Large data stores

Deployment automation

Performance optimization

AI infrastructure

Job description

Fuel Talent LLC seeks a Principal Engineer for distributed systems in Seattle, WA. This role is hybrid, requiring 2–4 days onsite, and offers a base salary of $160,000–$200,000 with up to 1% equity.

You will own and operate a major vertical of a high-scale infrastructure platform handling AI workloads and large data sets. You will design systems that stay fair, observable, and predictable under contention, and you will write production code, troubleshoot performance issues, and drive operational