Senior Platform Engineer: Distributed Systems Lead

Trase; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Trase Systems is hiring a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to own critical parts of Trase OS, a platform powering AI deployments in regulated environments. You’ll tackle distributed systems, ensure reliability, and guide architectural decisions across teams.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years of distributed systems experience, with a focus on durable execution, security, observability, and modern languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or TypeScript. Strong governance and auditable designs are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building distributed/platform systems.
• 4+ years owning mission‑critical runtimes or workflow/orchestration systems.
• Durable execution and idempotency expertise.
• Security & governance in production systems (auth, RBAC, audit, policy).
• Observability with tracing across async boundaries.
• Strong system design across storage, queues, schedulers, and evented architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own critical components of the core execution model (state machine, lifecycle, resource model, failure semantics).
• Build reliable distributed systems that behave predictably across retries, restarts, partial failures, and concurrent execution.
• Develop platform APIs/SDKs connecting workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces; drive versioning & compatibility.
• Guarantee correctness via idempotency, deterministic replays, compensating actions, and data integrity.
• Engineer reliability at scale: concurrency controls, rate limits, backpressure, sharding/partitioning, and workload isolation.
• Build security & governance into the core: RBAC/ABAC, policy enforcement, audit & lineage.
• Deliver observability: distributed tracing, structured logs, metrics, evaluation hooks; explainable trail of agent actions.
• Own quality: design reviews, test strategy, performance baselines, SLOs, incident response, postmortems.
• Mentor engineers and establish engineering patterns across the platform.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architecture leadership

Workflow/orchestration

Security & governance

Observability

Systems design

Go/Rust/Java/TypeScript

Regulated environments

Tools

Grafana

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Trase Systems is hiring a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to own critical parts of Trase OS, a platform powering AI deployments in regulated environments. You’ll tackle distributed systems, ensure reliability, and guide architectural decisions across teams.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years of distributed systems experience, with a focus on durable execution, security, observability, and modern languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or TypeScript. Strong governance and auditable designs are essential.