Senior Software Engineer – Distributed Systems (Hybrid)

Azolla Ventures

Salt Lake City, Northern (UT, KY)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+
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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.

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