Senior Software Engineer

REALM; United States; Remote; CAD 269,000 - 328,000; Full time

Job summary

REALM is seeking a backend-focused engineer to advance infrastructure and AI initiatives from a remote US-based team. You will contribute to large-scale production systems, while shaping technical direction and supporting open source collaboration.

The role sits at the intersection of core infrastructure and AI-focused work, offering exposure to enterprise customers and opportunities to work on distributed systems at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a software engineer.
• 2+ years with containers, Kubernetes and Golang.
• Production experience building server-side systems at scale.
• Experience with Kubernetes operators or controllers.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Open source contribution

AI frameworks exposure

Server-side scalability

Tools

Kubernetes

Golang

Containers

Server-side architecture

Job description

Remote (US) | Up to $210k | 4-stage interview process

Our client is a well-funded, high-growth technology company backed by leading venture investors. They build infrastructure software used by large global enterprises across a range of industries, and are actively expanding their product line into the AI space as demand grows in that area. The team places a strong emphasis on open source contribution and technical depth.

This role sits at the intersection of the company's core infrastructure work and its newer AI-focused initiatives, with the opportunity to contribute to both. You'll work on backend systems for large-scale, distributed production environments, with exposure to enterprise customers and a voice in technical direction.

Requirements:

• 5+ years as a software engineer


• 2+ years with containers, Kubernetes, and Golang


• Production experience building server-side systems at scale


• Experience with Kubernetes operators or controllers

Nice to have:

experience with distributed systems or networking infrastructure, exposure to emerging AI agent frameworks and protocols, open source contribution experience

Logistics:

Remote, US-based only, no visa sponsorship, up to $210k, 4-stage interview process