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Staff Systems Engineer

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Staff Systems Engineer

Company: Confidential — venture-backed technology company

Location: New York, NY (on-site; relocation assistance for exceptional candidates)

Compensation: $280,000 - $380,000 + competitive equity

Employment Type: Full-time

Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers only (must hold a transferable US work visa)

About the Company

The client started by making CI workloads run much faster: its first product runs GitHub Actions substantially faster and cheaper on its own global fleet of bare-metal machines instead of rented cloud VMs. It now orchestrates tens of millions of Firecracker VMs a month for 3,000+ companies, schedules 100k+ vCPUs concurrently, and runs a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster it manages itself.

The client reached about $10M ARR in under two years, has grown revenue more than 5x since the start of 2026, and has raised $58.5M through its Series B.

The Role

The client is hiring a Staff-level systems engineer with deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed infrastructure. You will work at the kernel level with bare-metal machines, virtualization and distributed storage, own the architecture of critical platforms, and change the technical direction of the team as a senior IC while the client triples its compute capacity.

What You Will Do

  • Own the architecture of infrastructure platforms that orchestrate tens of millions of Firecracker VMs a month across a global bare-metal fleet.
  • Own production outcomes (reliability, performance, operational excellence) as compute capacity triples.
  • Translate business and product strategy into long-term technical roadmaps with the technical co-founders.
  • Build at the kernel and filesystem level with eBPF, cgroups, namespaces and low-level I/O tuning to optimize performance at petabyte scale.
  • Lead complex infrastructure initiatives from problem definition through delivery.
  • Mentor senior engineers and raise engineering standards.

What You Bring

  • 8+ years in low-level systems or distributed infrastructure engineering
  • Built and owned large-scale distributed systems at recognized, prestigious organizations
  • Staff/Principal-level IC who materially changed a team's technical direction
  • Low-level systems work (kernel, filesystems, Linux primitives): building the substrate, not building on managed cloud
  • Startup or high-growth scale-up experience with small teams
  • Solid tenure with clearly delivered impact
  • Mastery of AI coding agents in your workflow

Nice to Have

  • Systems programming in Go, Rust or C/C++
  • Virtualization (Firecracker, QEMU, Cloud Hypervisor)
  • Distributed storage at scale (e.g. Ceph)
  • Publications, patents or conference talks

Interview Process

Recruiter screen (30 min), two systems technical interviews (1 hour each), on-site day, final chat with the CEO (30 min).

Tech Stack

Go, Rust, C, Firecracker, QEMU, Cloud Hypervisor, Ceph, Linux, eBPF, cgroups, namespaces, bare-metal infrastructure, GitHub Actions

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