Staff Engineer - Core & MLOps for Distributed Systems

Zyte; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Zyte, a remote-first company, seeks a Staff Engineer to own the design and evolution of core platform architectures. The role focuses on building scalable backend systems and leading multi-cloud infrastructure across Core API, Browser, Edge, Antiban, AI, and Agentic products.

You will partner with the Team Lead, Senior Engineers, DevOps, and QA to influence release velocity and the architecture of several squads. This position offers global collaboration and impact across distributed teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building scalable distributed backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect the control and context planes. Advance the control plane into a robust production substrate and design the context plane to aggregate operational signals for automated maintenance."
• Own the service chassis and golden path. Maintain and refine multi-language client libraries, deployment pipelines, and standardized workload specifications.
• Define inter-service contracts. Establish gRPC and Protocol Buffer definitions, API gateway transcoding, versioning policies, and schema evolution rules for safe deployments.
• Operate the platform substrate. Collaborate with infra engineers to run Kubernetes across multiple clouds, Terraform, HAProxy/Nginx, Kafka, and ongoing DB migrations.
• Drive architectural strategy via RFDs. Lead RFDs on durable workflow orchestration, per-request gateway orchestration, multi-cluster routing, and automated failover.
• Institutionalize reliability engineering. Establish clear SLOs and error budgets, health-aware traffic isolation, and controlled canary deployments.
• Share production ownership. Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident post-mortems, and translate lessons into platform improvements.
• Elevate engineering standards. Mentor engineers across squads on distributed systems design and best practices.

Job description

Zyte, a remote-first company, seeks a Staff Engineer to own the design and evolution of core platform architectures. The role focuses on building scalable backend systems and leading multi-cloud infrastructure across Core API, Browser, Edge, Antiban, AI, and Agentic products.

You will partner with the Team Lead, Senior Engineers, DevOps, and QA to influence release velocity and the architecture of several squads. This position offers global collaboration and impact across distributed teams.