Senior Distributed Systems Engineer — Hybrid Geothermal

Zanskar; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

PTO accrual increase

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401k

Stock options

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Zanskar in Salt Lake City is seeking a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to lead the design and delivery of a scalable, fault-tolerant distributed compute engine used by our geothermal research teams. You will work closely with scientists and engineers to advance our geoscience-driven platform.

You will migrate the system for scale and reliability, implement observability, CI/CD, and cloud-first architectures across AWS/GCP in a hybrid work setting while mentoring peers and sharing best

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering in a business environment, ideally with a heavy scientific component.
• Experience leading the design and implementation of distributed computing systems.
• Fluency in Python and SQL are required.
• Experience with cloud resources (GCP, AWS).
• Experience with CI/CD, version control (GitHub), containerization (Docker) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi).

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of a reliable distributed compute system for scientific research teams.
• Grow and scale the existing system for reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with geophysicists, geoscientists, seismologists and engineers to solve hard problems.
• Mentor others and share expertise in distributed systems engineering.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

SQL

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Observability

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Pulumi

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitHub

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Zanskar in Salt Lake City is seeking a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to lead the design and delivery of a scalable, fault-tolerant distributed compute engine used by our geothermal research teams. You will work closely with scientists and engineers to advance our geoscience-driven platform.

You will migrate the system for scale and reliability, implement observability, CI/CD, and cloud-first architectures across AWS/GCP in a hybrid work setting while mentoring peers and sharing best