Senior Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems (Hybrid, SLC)

Azolla Ventures; Salt Lake City, Northern (UT, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

15 days PTO

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401k

Stock options

Job summary

Zanskar is seeking a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to build a next‑generation multi‑physics well‑targeting engine for geothermal research. The role is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with hybrid work, and you will help design and maintain distributed compute systems used by scientists.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years of software engineering experience, fluency in Python and SQL, and strong cloud/CI‑CD experience (GCP/AWS).

Qualifications

• Experience leading the design and implementation of distributed computing systems.
• Fluency in Python and SQL; strong knowledge of cloud environments (GCP/AWS).
• Familiarity with CI/CD, containerization and IaC tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of a reliable distributed compute system.
• Grow and scale the current multi-physics well-targeting engine.
• Collaborate with geophysicists, geoscientists, seismologists and engineers.
• Teach and share craft in distributed systems while learning others' domains.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

SQL

Cloud platforms

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

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Job description

Zanskar is seeking a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to build a next‑generation multi‑physics well‑targeting engine for geothermal research. The role is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with hybrid work, and you will help design and maintain distributed compute systems used by scientists.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years of software engineering experience, fluency in Python and SQL, and strong cloud/CI‑CD experience (GCP/AWS).