Senior Software Engineer (Go / Distributed Systems)

Job Description

VC-Backed AI Infrastructure Startup is looking for a Senior Software Engineer skilled in Golang to join their growing team!

This Jobot Job is hosted by: Sydney Weaver

Salary: $200,000 - $350,000 per year

A bit about us:

This rapidly scaling startup—backed by $15M in funding—is building a new category of developer tooling designed specifically for AI-native applications. Their open-source platform is trusted by leaders in the AI ecosystem and supports products processing hundreds of millions of queries each month. With over 10 million environments launched to date and experiencing 20–100% growth month over month, they’re creating the foundation for a future cloud where AI writes and runs its own software.

Why join us?

Competitive base compensation (up to 350K) + equity

Great Benefits

Growth Opportunity

Great Culture

PTO, 401K, and much more!

Job Details

Responsibilities:

Design and maintain cloud infrastructure capable of orchestrating billions of concurrent AI agents

Build and optimize distributed systems for low-latency compute and high-throughput sandbox orchestration

Lead the development of a Go-based backend powering sandbox environments with startup times under 100ms

Architect workload placement systems across nodes with support for live migrations

Own the self-hosted and open-source developer experience, ensuring frictionless local setup and scaling

Build observability tools starting at the VM kernel level, leveraging eBPF and related technologies

Operate in a Linux-native environment, contributing deeply to the performance of the system stack

Collaborate directly with technical leadership on product direction and scaling strategies

Bring 7 years of experience building scaled distributed systems or infrastructure

Apply 5+ years of hands-on Go programming experience within Linux-based systems

Contribute startup-hardened instincts from at least 2 years in an early-stage company (0–1 product or team leadership experience)

Leverage experience working in cloud environments like GCP or AWS to inform architecture decisions

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent field

At least 7+ YOE building scalable infrastructure or distributed systems at a high-growth startup, preferably at a Dev Tooling or cloud infrastructure shop

Experience with Golang (ideally 3+ years). They are also open to candidates with a strong proficiency in C++ with willingness to transition

Hands on experience with Terraform

Deep familiarity with virtualization, containers, networking internals, and kernel-level optimization

Excited by terms like L4 load balancing, noisy neighbor mitigation, Firecracker, and hugepages

Comfortable in a lean, high-transparency team of mostly engineers (3-5 YOE average on team)

Familiarity with low-level systems concepts such as Firecracker, eBPF, Userfaultfd (UFFD), block devices, and hugepages

Understanding of networking at the transport layer, including L4 load balancing

Experience addressing performance issues in multi-tenant environments, including solving noisy neighbor problems

Bonus Points: Big plus if you have experience at a cloud infra company like AWS, Rapid7, Oracle, Digital Ocean, Heroku, Vulture MS Azure, or similar

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