Distributed Systems Engineer — Full Time
Dedalus Labs, Inc.•San Francisco, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
Dedalus (YC S25) is hiring a full-time distributed systems engineer to help build the infrastructure layer powering the next generation of AI agents. We are building persistent compute infrastructure, cloud sandboxes, and developer tools for long-running AI agents. Our systems span virtualization, orchestration, storage, networking, and low-level runtime infrastructure. The role is based in San Francisco and involves working closely with a small, highly technical team operating at startup speed.
Requirements
- Strong systems programming ability in Rust (preferred), Go, C/C++, or similar languages
- Graduate-level knowledge of distributed systems and operating systems concepts
- Experience building distributed systems in industry, research, or open source
- Experience with Kubernetes and modern cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with one or more of the following: distributed block storage, consistency models, virtualization and hypervisors, kernel or low-level systems architecture
- Strong understanding of systems performance, reliability, and debugging
Nice To Haves
- Published systems research papers (NSDI, OSDI, SOSP, ATC, EuroSys, etc.)
- Experience working on operating systems, kernels, or virtualization stacks
- Contributions to open-source systems projects (Linux, Firecracker, Cloud Hypervisor, etc.)
- Experience with low-level performance optimization
- Experience building infrastructure at scale
Responsibilities
- Distributed systems infrastructure for large-scale agent workloads
- Virtualization and sandboxing technologies
- Persistent compute and storage systems
- Scheduling, orchestration, and reliability engineering
- Performance optimization across systems layers
- Internal developer platforms and infrastructure tooling
- Production systems operating under real-world scale and latency constraints
Benefits
- Competitive salary + equity
- Relocation support available
- Meals and office benefits included
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
