Staff Engineer, AI Engines & Distributed Systems

Hone; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental insurance

Maternity and parental support

Relocation support

Job summary

Hone in San Francisco is seeking a software engineer to own the layer engines run on—sandboxes, their state, the harness runners, and the event infrastructure that connects it all. You’ll help scale architectures to deploy seamlessly into customer environments.

You’ll build durable sandboxing, concurrency controls, and deployment pipelines for SaaS, single-tenant, and VPC deployments, while maintaining strong production standards.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of engineering experience or equivalent depth from research, open source or your own projects
• Time at a fast-growing startup
• You’ve designed and built systems from scratch
• You’ve scaled and operated production infrastructure under real load
• Strong systems fundamentals: distributed systems, Linux, networking, concurrency, file systems
• You use coding agents every day and still understand every line you ship
• You build and tinker for fun because you genuinely care about how the technology works

Responsibilities

• Own the sandboxes, runners, event infra, and deployment architecture for engines.
• Ensure durability and scalability of agent swarms.
• Collaborate with team to deploy into customer environments.

Skills

Distributed systems

Linux

Networking

Concurrency

Systems design

Coding and debugging

Self-driven learning

Job description

Hone in San Francisco is seeking a software engineer to own the layer engines run on—sandboxes, their state, the harness runners, and the event infrastructure that connects it all. You’ll help scale architectures to deploy seamlessly into customer environments.

You’ll build durable sandboxing, concurrency controls, and deployment pipelines for SaaS, single-tenant, and VPC deployments, while maintaining strong production standards.