Distributed Systems Engineer - Platform

To be able to build something that scales and functions well, a Systems Engineer needs to be both a generalist and a specialist. Along with our existing team, you'll be responsible for the inner workings of our queueing system (eg. working on debounce, concurrency over time), state store (handling terabytes to petabytes of storage), the API layers in-between, and sometimes the high-level SDKs that our users build with.

Your work will directly impact millions of developers, and you'll collaborate with our designers, engineers, and founders to build the best experience possible.

This role requires working time overlap with US PST. Ideally, you'd live in the SF Bay Area, but for strong candidates you may live anywhere in the United States. Our existing systems engineering team is in San Francisco and works in person several days a week.

Architect and implement solutions in our queueing layer, state store, and execution layer (eg. concurrency over time, or function debounce)

Plan and implement improvements on throughput, and latency at hundreds of thousands to millions of requests per second

Contribute to systems architecture and infrastructure changes as we grow

Collaborate with team members to expose internal data across metrics stores, APIs, and customer dashboards we host in our cloud UI

Work with backend engineers to design APIs that can be used across the Inngest cloud dashboard, dev server and CLIs

Dogfood the Inngest product and develop ideas for improvements, features, or integrations

Communicate with our users through Github, email and Discord

Write technical specs for features and documentation for our users