Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

Zanskar•Salt Lake City, UT

2d•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 that meets the ongoing needs of scientific research teams. This role involves learning the existing system, identifying how to migrate it for scale and reliability, and collaborating with geophysicists, geoscientists, seismologists, and engineers. The engineer will also teach critical skills and experience to others while learning about earth subsurface modeling.

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.
Develop and maintain Zanskar’s next-generation multi-physics well-targeting engine.
Identify how to migrate the system for scale and reliability.
Collaborate with geoscientists, seismologists, and engineers to solve problems.
Teach critical skills and experience to others.
Ensure system observability through logging, monitoring, alerting, and metrics.
Develop persistent data storage for digital artifacts.
Build and manage orchestration systems to scale cloud-based workloads.