Senior Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure & Control

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in Austin, TX is seeking engineers to build the production services behind its telemetry pipelines, equipment models, and control APIs. You will work across sites to ensure reliable, scalable, and observable data flows in a fast-paced, autonomous environment.

The role emphasizes owning end-to-end services, from design through deployment, with focus on data contracts, security, and performance. A strong background in distributed systems and modern cloud tooling is expected.

Qualifications

• Shipped production code in Go, Python, or TypeScript.
• Experience with high-throughput messaging systems (NATS/Kafka).
• Designed data models for time-stamped data and understood query tradeoffs.
• Instrumented services with metrics/logs/profiling and diagnosed bottlenecks.

Responsibilities

• Build production services behind telemetry pipelines and APIs.
• Own data contracts, schemas, and APIs across sites.
• Design messaging/state layer with correctness and ordering guarantees.
• Implement observability to explain failures and performance issues.
• Prove behavior with unit/integration tests and simulated devices.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Tools

NATS

Kafka

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Job description

Fluidstack in Austin, TX is seeking engineers to build the production services behind its telemetry pipelines, equipment models, and control APIs. You will work across sites to ensure reliable, scalable, and observable data flows in a fast-paced, autonomous environment.

The role emphasizes owning end-to-end services, from design through deployment, with focus on data contracts, security, and performance. A strong background in distributed systems and modern cloud tooling is expected.