{"id":778845,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dedaluslabs-distributed-systems-engineer","title":"Distributed Systems Engineer","company":{"id":673997,"name":"Dedalus Labs","domain":"dedaluslabs.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/dedaluslabs","size_band":"1-10","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":170000,"max":250000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":250000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Rust","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-06-29T17:15:26Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-06-29","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T03:38:26Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":86,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":86},"description":"Distributed Systems Engineer @ Dedalus Labs\nMission\nDedalus Labs is an AI research neolab building infrastructure for AI agents.\nWe’re building the persistent compute layer that powers the next generation of autonomous software. Our platform spans distributed storage, virtualization, orchestration, networking, scheduling, and runtime infrastructure for long-running AI agents.\nWe’re looking for engineers who enjoy designing systems that continue working long after individual machines fail.\nYou might be a fit if you\nThink distributed systems are one of computer science’s most beautiful subjects.\n\nCare deeply about consistency, fault tolerance, and system correctness.\n\nEnjoy designing systems before writing them.\n\nThink latency, throughput, and reliability are all product features.\n\nRead systems papers because they’re genuinely interesting.\n\nHave strong opinions about storage engines, consensus algorithms, scheduling, or distributed architecture.\n\nBelieve simple systems are usually harder to build than complicated ones.\n\nThink every abstraction has a cost.\n\nMeasure before optimizing, then optimize relentlessly.\n\nView infrastructure as a product for other engineers.\n\nAre high agency and fiercely independent.\n\nSay how things ought to be built, then build them.\n\nAre a competitive teammate with a heart of gold.\n\nAre hungry to learn, improve, and reflect deeply on feedback.\n\nGo above and beyond in everything you do.\n\nWhat you’ll build\nDistributed infrastructure for large-scale AI agent workloads.\n\nPersistent compute and distributed storage systems.\n\nScheduling and orchestration platforms.\n\nVirtualization and sandboxing infrastructure.\n\nReliable multi-tenant cloud systems.\n\nInternal developer platforms and infrastructure tooling.\n\nProduction systems operating under real-world scale, latency, and fault tolerance constraints.\n\nRepresentative Projects\nYou might find yourself working on problems like:\nDesigning distributed storage systems for persistent agent state.\n\nBuilding scheduling infrastructure that efficiently allocates compute across thousands of concurrent agents.\n\nImproving reliability and fault tolerance across distributed infrastructure.\n\nDesigning virtualization and isolation systems for secure multi-tenant execution.\n\nOptimizing bottlenecks across networking, storage, scheduling, and runtime layers.\n\nBuilding infrastructure that makes operating AI agents dramatically simpler for developers.\n\nWhat we look for\nStrong systems programming ability in Rust (preferred), Go, C/C++, or similar languages.\n\nDeep understanding of distributed systems, operating systems, and concurrent programming.\n\nExperience building distributed systems in industry, research, or open source.\n\nStrong engineering judgment around performance, scalability, reliability, and debugging.\n\nExperience with Kubernetes and modern cloud infrastructure.\n\nAbility to design systems that remain reliable under production workloads.\n\nHigh agency and excellent engineering judgment.\n\nNice-to-have\nExperience with distributed storage systems.\n\nFamiliarity with consistency models, consensus algorithms, or replication protocols.\n\nExperience with virtualization, hypervisors, containers, or Firecracker.\n\nKernel, operating systems, or low-level runtime experience.\n\nExperience operating infrastructure at production scale.\n\nPublished systems research (NSDI, OSDI, SOSP, EuroSys, ATC, etc.).\n\nContributions to systems-focused open-source projects.\n\nExperience with performance engineering and systems optimization.\n\nTaste\nYou know the difference between a distributed system that works and one that continues working when everything goes wrong.\nYou care about elegant architecture, principled engineering tradeoffs, and building infrastructure that engineers trust.\nLogistics\nIn person in San Francisco.\n\nWe sponsor visas.\n\nRelocation support available.\n\nCompetitive salary and meaningful equity.\n\nMeals and office benefits included.\n\nTips\nThe first thing we look at is your GitHub.\nShow us distributed systems you’ve built. Open-source infrastructure. Research. Storage engines. Schedulers. Consensus implementations. Infrastructure you’ve operated in production. Technical writing.\nWe care far more about systems you’ve built than years on your résumé.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4258,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Virtualization","AI Agents"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T23:56:57Z"}],"liveness":{"score":8,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.273,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":86,"expected_fill_days":41,"reasons":["conf:2","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":250000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dedaluslabs-distributed-systems-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dedaluslabs-distributed-systems-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T09:31:42Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}