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Harrison Clarke · 10 hours ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$250K/yr - $350K/yr

Harrison Clarke is a high-growth, tier-1 VC-backed startup in the AI code generation space, hiring a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to help design and build core systems for a next-generation AI product. This hands-on role involves developing low-latency services and scalable data orchestration while solving complex engineering problems.

ConsultingDevOpsHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologyStaffing Agency

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate distributed systems that are reliable under real-world load and failure modes

Develop core backend services in Go and Python (service frameworks, orchestration, control planes, APIs)

Solve problems across consistency, concurrency, throughput, latency, resiliency, backpressure, and graceful degradation

Build systems for job scheduling / workload orchestration and efficient compute utilisation (including demanding AI workloads)

Improve observability and debugging for complex systems: tracing, metrics, structured logging, and profiling

Lead architectural decisions: data flows, service boundaries, state management, and scaling strategies

Set engineering standards and mentor others, while remaining deeply technical and hands-on

Qualification

Distributed systemsPythonGoReliability engineeringCloud environmentsNetworking & performanceHigh-scale systemsKubernetesML/AI infrastructureObservabilityMentoring

Required

Strong experience building production distributed systems

Excellent coding skills in Go and Python

Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (consensus concepts, replication, consistency trade-offs)

Deep understanding of networking & performance (RPC patterns, load balancing, latency analysis)

Deep understanding of reliability engineering (timeouts, retries, idempotency, circuit breaking, chaos/failure testing)

Experience scaling services and data flows in cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Comfortable working in ambiguity and moving quickly without compromising core quality

Preferred

Experience with high-scale systems: streaming, queues, event-driven architectures, or large-scale caching

Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure (helpful, but not the focus)

Experience with ML/AI infrastructure or compute-heavy systems (e.g., GPU scheduling, batch/online hybrid workloads)

Company

Harrison Clarke

Harrison Clarke is the Leading Staffing & Recruiting Firm in XOps & Cybersecurity.

Founded in 2016

New York, New York, USA

11-50 employees

https://www.harrisonclarke.com/

Funding

Current Stage

Early Stage

Leadership Team

Firas Sozan

Founder & CEO

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