Senior Software Engineer – Distributed Systems (Hybrid)

Azolla Ventures; Salt Lake City, Northern (UT, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

15 days PTO

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401k

Stock options

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Zanskar is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer in Salt Lake City. Hybrid work model with a focus on building a next‑generation multi‑physics well‑targeting engine for geothermal exploration.

You will lead distributed systems, collaborate with scientists, and contribute to scalable, observable software that powers research teams. The role requires 7+ years of software experience, Python/SQL proficiency, and cloud/VMM expertise.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with a strong scientific component.
• Experience leading the design and implementation of distributed computing systems.
• Fluency in Python and SQL is required.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitHub Actions, version control, containerization with Docker, and IaC (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Experience architecting and managing cloud resources (GCP, AWS).

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of a distributed compute system for geothermal research teams.
• Learn the domain and migrate the system for scale and reliability.
• Collaborate with geophysicists, geoscientists, seismologists and engineers to address hard problems.
• Teach and share distributed systems engineering practices to the team.

Skills

Distributed computing leadership

Lead cross-team collaboration

Cloud architecture design

CI/CD practices

Python coding

SQL queries

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Pulumi

GCP

AWS

Job description

Zanskar is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer in Salt Lake City. Hybrid work model with a focus on building a next‑generation multi‑physics well‑targeting engine for geothermal exploration.

You will lead distributed systems, collaborate with scientists, and contribute to scalable, observable software that powers research teams. The role requires 7+ years of software experience, Python/SQL proficiency, and cloud/VMM expertise.