Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - AI Infrastructure

Recruiting from Scratch LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity package

In-person engineering culture

Job summary

Recruiting from Scratch LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own architecture and implementation of distributed systems for AI agent orchestration. You will design and operate scalable backend services in a fast-paced, in-person setting in San Francisco.

The role emphasizes technical ownership, deep debugging skills, and leadership in implementing high-throughput infrastructure for real-time agent communication.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Primary individual contributor on multiple medium-to-large technical projects.
• Deep experience designing, deploying, and operating distributed services in production.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, distributed systems, data modeling, and production infrastructure.
• Experience solving scalability challenges with high-throughput or highly concurrent workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and operate distributed systems supporting hundreds of thousands of concurrent AI agents.
• Own medium-to-large engineering initiatives as a primary individual contributor from architecture through production.
• Build infrastructure capable of processing millions of tokens per minute across highly parallel workloads.
• Design systems handling massive numbers of agents reading from and writing to shared data models.
• Build real-time infrastructure for transmitting agent outputs across backend services to end users.
• Debug complex production issues spanning concurrency, distributed state, infrastructure, and application services.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Concurrency

Debugging complex systems

Technical leadership

Communication

Independent ownership

Tools

Go

Redis

PostgreSQL

S3

Temporal

Pub/Sub

Job description

Recruiting from Scratch LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own architecture and implementation of distributed systems for AI agent orchestration. You will design and operate scalable backend services in a fast-paced, in-person setting in San Francisco.

The role emphasizes technical ownership, deep debugging skills, and leadership in implementing high-throughput infrastructure for real-time agent communication.