Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - San Francisco, California

MissionHires; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited office book budget

Generous equity grant

Retirement matching

Medical, dental & vision insurance

Unlimited paid time off

Weekly lunch coverage

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

MissionHires in San Francisco is looking for a distributed systems software engineer to develop our in-house resource orchestration system for GPU compute nodes. This role entails designing resilient architectures for high availability and performance optimization.

The ideal candidate has experience in managing distributed systems, Linux virtualization, and appreciates solid documentation practices. We offer competitive salary, generous equity grants, and various benefits including unlimited time off and health insurance.

Qualifications

• Built fault tolerant distributed systems managing hardware resources at scale.
• Experience with Linux virtualization tools such as Cloud Hypervisor and QEMU.
• Strong documentation skills and system reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design distributed system architectures for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Automate deployment and optimize performance of GPU virtual machines.
• Develop multi-tier high performance network attached storage systems.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Fault tolerant systems

Linux virtualization

Documentation

Tools

Cloud Hypervisor

QEMU

libvirt

Rust

etcd

Job description

As a distributed systems software engineer, you’ll be working on our in-house resource orchestration system. This system coordinates state and access to hundreds (soon thousands) of GPU compute nodes in multi-tenant clusters spanning across multiple data centers.

Responsibilities

• Design of distributed system architectures that enable high availability fault tolerant state management
• Deployment automation and performance optimization of virtual machines running on bare metal that utilize GPU passthrough
• Design and deployment of multi-tier high performance network attached storage systems

Requirements

• You have built fault tolerant distributed systems before that can manage hardware resources at scale
• You enjoy creating self-correcting systems that contribute to hardware health and reliability
• You have experience with Linux virtualization (Cloud Hypervisor, QEMU, libvirt, virtiofs, sr-iov, PCIe passthrough)
• You appreciate and value good documentation

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Rust (our VM orchestrator is written in Rust)
• Experience with etcd
• Experience with high performance storage systems (WEKA, VAST, Ceph, etc.)

Benefits

• Unlimited office book budget: You can buy as many books for the office as you want. You’re encouraged to spend time during the workday reading!
• Generous equity grant: Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company
• Retirement matching: We match 401(k) plans up to 4%
• Medical, dental & vision: We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums
• Time off: We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays
• Parental leave: We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family
• Daily lunch: We cover lunch daily for employees
• Visa Sponsorships: Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits