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Distributed Systems Jobs in San Francisco

110 open positions · Updated 1 week ago

Average salary (USD/year): 237.8k–354.1k/yr
110 roles Staff 39, Senior 33, Lead 14, Mid 14, C-level 2, Director 2, Principal 2, Intern 1, Junior 1 1–15 yrs experience *HQ - San Francisco, CA +41 more Full-time, Internship newest 3 hours ago

110 Distributed Systems roles across 48 companies, most in AI/ML; 5% fully remote; typical advertised salary $198k

Work arrangement: 5 fully remote · 47 hybrid · 14 on-site · 44 not stated

Advertised salaries: p25 $176k · median $198k · p75 $285k (from 72 disclosed annual salaries, USD)

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Reflection AI

Lead the Shared Services team at Reflection AI, focusing on building and scaling distributed systems while mentoring engineers.

Reflection AI San Francisco, CA Published 1 month ago
Flexible on stack
Chai Discovery

Join Chai Discovery as a Software Engineer to optimize AI models for drug discovery in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Chai Discovery San Francisco office Published 9 months ago
Orkes

Lead community engagement for Orkes, driving developer adoption and education around workflow orchestration and AI systems.

Orkes Santa Clara, CA or Seattle, WA $120k–$150k/yr Published 3 months ago
Postman

Design and build backend systems for Postman's identity and authentication platform in a collaborative team environment.

Postman Hyderabad, Telangana, India Published 1 month ago
Flexible on stack
Nooks

Join Nooks as a Senior Software Engineer to build scalable infrastructure for a rapidly growing AI-driven sales platform.

Nooks San Francisco Published 4 months ago
Cartesia

Build the platform behind Managed Agents, shaping the latency, reliability, and developer experience of real-time voice agents.

Cartesia *HQ - San Francisco, CA Published 4 months ago
AI-first team
Vapi

Join Vapi to enhance the agentic developer experience and accelerate the development lifecycle for real-time voice AI.

Vapi San Francisco Published 2 weeks ago
Flexible on stack
baseten

Join Baseten as a Software Engineer to architect and develop scalable infrastructure for ML training platforms.

baseten San Francisco Published 1 year ago
Flexible on stack
baseten

Join Baseten as a Product Manager to shape the future of AI infrastructure and enhance production inference capabilities.

baseten San Francisco Published 5 months ago
Resolve AI

Join Resolve AI as a Research Engineer to develop AI-powered workflows and optimize data pipelines in a collaborative environment.

Resolve AI San Francisco Published 2 years ago
Flexible on stack
Rox

Join Rox as a Foundations Engineer to design and operate systems that power AI-driven agent decision loops.

Rox San Francisco Published 2 months ago
AI-first team
Rox

Join Rox as a Core Engineer to design and operate foundational infrastructure for autonomous revenue agents in a fast-growing AI company.

Rox San Francisco Published 4 months ago
Rox

Join Rox as a Platform Engineer to design and build the infrastructure for AI agents in a startup environment.

Rox San Francisco Published 2 months ago
AI-first team
Anrok

Join Anrok as a Software Engineer to build the foundational infrastructure for AI agents in a dynamic startup environment.

Anrok San Francisco Published 3 months ago
Flexible on stack 70% coding
Inferact

Join Inferact as a staff engineer to build distributed systems for AI inference at global scale.

Inferact San Francisco $200k–$400k/yr Published 7 months ago
Flexible on stack
Inferact

Lead the engineering organization at Inferact to develop systems for vLLM, focusing on GPU performance and ML systems optimization.

Inferact San Francisco Published 1 month ago
Phylo

Join Phylo as a Member of Technical Staff to advance AI agents for biomedical discovery through engineering and evaluation.

Phylo South San Francisco Published 1 month ago
Exa

Join Exa as a Software Engineer to build systems that enhance AI's understanding of knowledge and information.

Exa San Francisco, California Published 2 months ago
AI-first team
Decagon

Design and build systems for Decagon's AI agents, impacting millions of interactions in a fast-paced environment.

Decagon San Francisco $200k–$400k/yr Published 9 months ago
Decagon

Lead the Agent Orchestration team at Decagon, driving technical strategy and team development in a fast-paced environment.

Decagon San Francisco $280k–$430k/yr Published 7 months ago
Heavy meetings