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Distributed Systems Engineer
| Role | Distributed Systems Engineer |
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| Type | full-time |
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| Role taxonomy | Software Engineering |
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| Specialties | Software Engineering |
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| Location | Washington, DC / San Francisco, CA / London, UK / Remote (US) |
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| Salary | — |
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| Apply via | Email |
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| Hiring notes | — |
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| Parsed locations | Washington, DC, San Francisco, CA, London, UK |
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| Regions | US, UK |
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| Posted by | bug_zapper |
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| Posted | Oct 1, 2025 |
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| Source | View on Hacker News ↗ |
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Original posting
REMOTE (US-West preferred) OR on-site (DC, SF or London)
We are looking for a passionate and experienced Distributed Systems wizard.
If some of the following items excite you, then you’d probably enjoy working with us.
* Systems Dependability: fault tolerance and high availability
* Foundational D.S. problems (leader election, fault detection, consensus, atomic broadcast, etc.
* Testing and benchmarking techniques (chaos Engineering, fault injection, fuzzing, property-based testing, Jepsen, ...)
* Replication techniques and protocols
* Debuggers and debugging techniques
* Distributed Databases & Consistency Models
* Durable Message Queues & Workflows
* Formal verification
If you have (at least a few years of) experience in at least 3 of the items above, you’re a good fit.
About the job: you’ll get your hands dirty on a number of distributed systems of various shapes and sizes.
Some traveling required (conferences, customers visits, and HQ visits if you are remote).
About us: Well established startup. One-of-a-kind product, used by a growing number of well-known companies. Great team chock full of impressive, passionate, fun people.
Send your CV to flybys.verb.4e@icloud.com
Please include:
* A brief comment of why you think we're a good match
* Which of the areas above you are experienced in (prepare to be grilled on them!)
* The string ‘mantis shrimp’ to make it past our spam filter.