Senior Distributed Systems Engineer – Geothermal Tech (Hybrid)

Zanskar; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

15 days PTO + accrual based on tenure

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401k

Stock options

Growth opportunities with carbon-reduc

Job summary

Zanskar in Salt Lake City, Utah, is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to design and maintain our next-generation multi-physics well-targeting engine. You will lead a distributed compute system and collaborate with geophysicists, geoscientists, seismologists and engineers to advance geothermal exploration.

The role emphasizes scalability, reliability, and modern software practices, including CI/CD, cloud deployments (GCP/AWS), containerization with Docker and Kubernetes, and Python/SQL

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years experience in software engineering in a business environment.
• Experience leading the design and implementation of distributed computing systems.
• Fluency in Python and SQL; strong software engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of a reliable distributed compute system.
• Collaborate with geophysicists, geoscientists, seismologists, and engineers.
• Mentor peers and help migrate the system for scale and reliability.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Leadership

Python

SQL

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Pulumi

GCP/AWS

Job description

Zanskar in Salt Lake City, Utah, is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to design and maintain our next-generation multi-physics well-targeting engine. You will lead a distributed compute system and collaborate with geophysicists, geoscientists, seismologists and engineers to advance geothermal exploration.

The role emphasizes scalability, reliability, and modern software practices, including CI/CD, cloud deployments (GCP/AWS), containerization with Docker and Kubernetes, and Python/SQL