Staff Software Engineer - Real-Time Distributed Systems

Harrison Clarke; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Harrison Clarke partners with a Series A startup building agentic infrastructure for enterprise workflows. This role focuses on real-time coordination, distributed state, and reliable execution across multi-step processes for large organizations.

We seek engineers who can design and operate real-time distributed systems, storage, and data movement at scale, delivering low-latency backend components that power autonomous agents in complex enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• Built or scaled real-time, fault-tolerant systems.
• Experience with distributed databases or storage engines.
• Experience delivering enterprise-grade infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate real-time distributed systems for enterprise workflows.
• Develop durable storage and state management components.
• Build low-latency inference infrastructure for model/tool calls.
• Ensure reliability and SLAs in production environments.

Skills

Distributed systems

Fault tolerance

Real-time processing

Enterprise software

Job description

Harrison Clarke partners with a Series A startup building agentic infrastructure for enterprise workflows. This role focuses on real-time coordination, distributed state, and reliable execution across multi-step processes for large organizations.

We seek engineers who can design and operate real-time distributed systems, storage, and data movement at scale, delivering low-latency backend components that power autonomous agents in complex enterprise environments.