About this opportunity
Staffworx lists this Staff Systems Engineer (Low Level / Distributed Infrastructure) opportunity in new york, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Staff Systems Engineer | New York | $280k to $380k + seven figure equity potential
Own the systems layer that makes CI fast. If you have opinions about kernels, caching and why builds are slow, read on.
Key skills: Linux kernel, eBPF, cgroups, namespaces, Go, Rust, C, Firecracker, KVM, QEMU, Ceph, distributed storage, bare metal, virtualisation, AI coding agents
A rapidly scaling, venture-backed developer infrastructure business is hiring Staff level systems engineers to own the architecture behind one of the fastest growing compute platforms in the US market.
The platform runs millions of workloads every week across a self-owned global fleet of bare metal machines, using microVM virtualisation and a self-managed petabyte scale distributed storage layer. Compute capacity is about to be tripled to support enterprise demand, and the platform is expanding into agent sandboxing and autonomous coding tooling.
This is a senior individual contributor role reporting directly to the technical co-founders. No management layers, no legacy estate, full architectural ownership.
What you will do
Own architectural direction for the core infrastructure platform: bare metal fleet management, microVM orchestration and petabyte scale distributed storage
Take end to end ownership of production reliability and performance as compute capacity triples
Build at the kernel and filesystem level using eBPF, cgroups, namespaces and low level I/O tuning
Lead ambiguous, high complexity initiatives from problem definition to delivery
Translate product and commercial strategy into a long term technical roadmap alongside the technical founders
Raise the engineering bar and act as a force multiplier for a small, elite team
What you will need
8+ years in low level systems or distributed infrastructure engineering
Demonstrable personal ownership of business critical systems at a recognised, high calibre engineering organisation
Systems programming in Go, Rust or C/C++
Virtualisation experience such as Firecracker, KVM, QEMU or Cloud Hypervisor
Distributed storage at scale, Ceph or equivalent
Fluency with AI coding agents as part of your daily engineering workflow
Nice to have
Early engineer at a start-up that went on to become an industry name
Publications, patents or conference speaking in systems engineering
On-site in New York City. Relocation assistance available for exceptional candidates
Visa transfers considered (for example OPT or H1B transfer). New sponsorships are not possible
This is a builder role, not a platform operations role. Candidates from primarily DevOps or SRE backgrounds without evidence of building systems themselves will not be shortlisted
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Worksite address
new york, NY, 10261, US
Who can apply
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