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Beam

Distributed Systems Engineer

san francisco, CA

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Job description

Beam is an ultrafast AI inference platform. We built a serverless runtime that launches GPU‑backed containers in less than 1 second and quickly scales out to thousands of GPUs. Developers use our platform to serve apps to millions of users around the globe. We’re backed by Y Combinator, Tiger Global, and prominent developer‑tool founders, including the founder of Snyk and former CTO of GitHub.

About The Role

We’re looking to hire someone to help us with Platform Engineering work. We’re working on lots of fun problems:

Low‑level systems development: working with container runtimes, OCI image formats, and lazy‑loading large files from content addressable storage

Efficiently packing thousands of workloads into GPUs across multiple clouds

Working with cutting‑edge technologies, like GPU checkpoint restore and CRIU

Our backend is mostly in Go, with some Python. Your work will directly impact millions of users around the world.

Skills & Experience

3-5 years of experience working with a large distributed system

Comfortable with Kubernetes

Experience writing a statically typed language, like Golang or Rust

Familiarity with things like gRPC, Helm/Kustomize, and Terraform

Excited to collaborate closely with customers

Enthusiasm for developer tools, cloud native technologies, and open source software

Benefits

Competitive salary and meaningful equity

Join a fast‑growing pre‑series A company at the ground floor

Health, dental, and vision benefits with 90% coverage for you and 50% for dependents

Opportunities to participate in events across the cloud native community

Fitness stipend, learning budget, and much, much more

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Worksite address

san francisco, CA, 94199, US

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