Senior System Engineer

Daytona Platforms Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology platform is seeking a Senior System Engineer in New York. You will be responsible for architecting a distributed system for AI, ensuring scalability and reliability at an unprecedented scale. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in distributed systems and are proficient in debugging complex challenges. Join a transformative team that is redefining software development.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in distributed systems and scalability.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration.
• Ability to debug complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale a distributed system capable of running billions of AI agents.
• Build and optimize observability stacks.
• Solve challenges in scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with engineers to design a performant runtime.
• Contribute to frameworks and standards for high-availability distributed systems.
• Continuously improve performance and efficiency of the runtime layer.

Skills

Distributed systems

High-availability

Scalability challenges

Containerization

Observability

Debugging complex systems

Resilience

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

CI/CD

Job description

Location: New York, San Francisco or Croatia

Type: Full-time

About the Role

Daytona is looking for a Senior System Engineer to help us build the next-generation distributed system for AI. You’ll be responsible for scaling Daytona to support millions, and eventually billions, of sandboxes running simultaneously.

This is a systems-level engineering role that requires deep expertise in distributed architectures, observability, and large-scale reliability. You’ll design and implement infrastructure that ensures Daytona runs smoothly at unprecedented scale.

What You'll Be Doing

Architect and scale a distributed system capable of running billions of AI agents

Build and optimize observability stacks to monitor and maintain system health

Solve challenges in scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance

Collaborate with platform and AI engineers to design a smooth, performant runtime

Contribute to frameworks and standards for high-availability distributed systems

Continuously improve performance and efficiency of the runtime layer

You Might Be a Fit If You

Have extensive experience in distributed systems, high-availability, and scaling challenges

Are comfortable with containerization, scheduling, and orchestration at scale

Excel at debugging complex systems and building observability into everything you do

Think in terms of resilience, failure domains, and graceful degradation

Can balance moving fast with maintaining long-term system stability

Bonus Points

Experience building infrastructure at hyperscale (millions of concurrent workloads)

Familiarity with AI runtimes, orchestration platforms, or cloud-native infra

Contributions to open-source distributed systems or observability tooling

About Daytona

Daytona is building the agent-native runtime layer for modern software development. Our platform spins up secure, sandboxed environments in under 90ms, used by developers and AI agents alike. Daytona is open source, trusted by thousands, and backed by top-tier investors.

We’re not just making dev environments faster. We’re redefining how software gets built.

Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview. We appreciate all the applications we receive, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.