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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 5 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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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
Atoms

Join Atoms as a Senior Full Stack Engineer to build critical software interfaces for real-world robots in a collaborative environment.

Atoms San Francisco, CA $176k–$242k/yr Published 2 months ago
Flexible on stack
Worldcoin

Join Worldcoin as a Staff Backend Engineer to build decentralized, secure, and scalable backend systems for the World ID protocol.

Worldcoin San Francisco $225.5k–$265k/yr Published 1 year ago
Headway

Join Headway as an Engineering Manager to lead teams in building a reliable financial system for mental healthcare.

Headway San Francisco, CA $222.8k–$278.5k/yr Published 1 month ago
Heavy meetings
Mixpanel

Join Mixpanel as a Software Engineer III to design and build systems that execute queries for an AI-first analytics platform.

Mixpanel San Francisco, US (Hybrid) Published 1 week ago
Flexible on stack
Abridge

Lead the product strategy for Abridge's AI/ML evaluation platform, ensuring quality and efficiency across multiple product teams.

Abridge SF Office Published 2 months ago
Fastly

Lead a high-performing engineering team to architect and manage distributed container infrastructure at the edge.

Fastly Denver, CO; New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA $228.3k–$273.9k/yr Published 1 month ago
Flexible on stack Heavy meetings
Coreweave

Lead complex cross-functional programs in performance and benchmarking for CoreWeave's AI/ML Platform Services.

Coreweave Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / San Francisco, CA / Bellevue, WA $177k–$237k/yr Published 2 months ago
Coreweave

Join CoreWeave as a Staff Engineer to design and implement the backend architecture for the innovative molab notebook service.

Coreweave Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / San Francisco, CA/ Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA / Remote - US $188k–$275k/yr Published 9 months ago
Flexible on stack
Lyft

Join Lyft as a Staff Software Engineer to lead complex systems and drive engineering excellence in a collaborative environment.

Lyft San Francisco, CA $176k–$220k/yr Published 1 month ago
Amplitude

Join Amplitude as a Senior Software Engineer to drive technical success for enterprise customers with a focus on backend systems.

Amplitude San Francisco, CA $165k–$276k/yr Published 3 weeks ago
Anthropic

Lead a team of engineers to optimize Anthropic's inference infrastructure for AI systems.

Anthropic San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA $405k–$625k/yr Published 1 week ago
Flexible on stack Heavy meetings
Anthropic

Lead a team to build Anthropic's scheduling platform and improve fleet efficiency in a fast-paced AI environment.

Anthropic San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY $405k–$485k/yr Published 1 week ago
Flexible on stack Heavy meetings
Perplexity

Join Perplexity as a technical program manager to drive the core inference platform and coordinate between model providers and engineering teams.

Perplexity San Francisco Published 1 week ago
MongoDB

Join MongoDB as a Senior Product Manager to architect the future of search infrastructure for AI applications.

MongoDB San Francisco $220.6k–$220.6k/yr Published 2 weeks ago
Stripe

Join Stripe as a Technical Program Manager to drive cross-functional engineering programs and enhance infrastructure solutions.

Stripe South San Francisco, CA $174.6k–$260.2k/yr Published 1 week ago
PagerDuty

Join PagerDuty as a junior AI/ML Engineer to build and ship AI systems at scale, collaborating with senior engineers.

PagerDuty Lisbon Published 3 weeks ago
Flexible on stack
Cloudflare

Lead a team of engineers to build and maintain Cloudflare's billing and payments infrastructure, impacting billions in revenue.

Cloudflare Hybrid Published 2 weeks ago
Heavy meetings
Cursor

Join a small, passionate team to build data systems for training frontier coding models at Cursor.

Cursor San Francisco Published 2 weeks ago
Anthropic

Join Anthropic as a Staff+ Software Engineer to build and scale Claude Managed Agents in a rapidly growing team.

Anthropic San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY $405k–$485k/yr Published 3 weeks ago