Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

Zanskar • Salt Lake City, UT

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Distributed Systems Engineer will play a critical role developing and maintaining Zanskar’s next-generation multi-physics well-targeting engine. A successful candidate will lead the design and delivery of a reliable distributed compute system, learn the existing system to identify migration strategies for scale and reliability, and collaborate with geoscientists, seismologists, and engineers to solve complex problems. The role also involves teaching critical skills and experience to others while learning about earth modeling from peers.

Requirements

• Minimum 7+ years of experience in software engineering in a business environment, ideally with a heavy scientific component.
• Experience leading the design and implementation of distributed computing systems.
• Experience with the development of fault-tolerant, resilient event-driven architectures.
• Experience building and managing orchestration systems to massively scale cloud-based workloads (serverless, Kubernetes, and/or custom VM fleets).
• Experience defining and developing persistent data storage for digital artifacts, both with RDBMS and cloud blob storage at scale.
• Experience ensuring system observability through logging, monitoring, alerting and metrics.
• Familiarity with software engineering best practices: CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar), version control (GitHub), containerization (Docker) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Experience architecting, permissioning and maintaining cloud resources (GCP, AWS).
• Fluency in Python and SQL are required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with experiment tracking.
• Experience with optimization methods.
• Experience with applied algorithm development.
• Experience with reinforcement learning and other AI/ML techniques.
• Experience with web development.
• Familiarity with geoscience concepts and applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of a reliable distributed compute system that meets the ongoing needs of scientific research teams.
• Learn the existing system and identify how to migrate it for scale and reliability.
• Collaborate with geophysicists, geoscientists, seismologists, and engineers to solve hard problems.
• Teach critical skills and experience to others and learn about modeling the earth's subsurface.

Benefits

• Paid holidays
• 15 days PTO + PTO accrual increase based on tenure
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401k
• Stock options
• Growth opportunities at a company with a direct impact in displacing carbon emissions

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed