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$229,500–$260,000/yr
US

  • Design and own the over-the-air update system for NodeZero, including delivery protocol, version negotiation, rollout orchestration, health verification, and automatic rollback.
  • Own fleet management to track version state of every deployment, design safe rollout strategies like canary and phased rollouts, and ensure reliable delivery across constrained and air-gapped environments.
  • Mentor P4 engineers through design and code reviews, set technical direction for update delivery, and own OTA system reliability end-to-end with on-call incident response.

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$170,350–$275,550/yr
US 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Design and build core systems for Docker's enterprise agentic platform using Go and Kubernetes.
  • Own production reliability from on-call to SLOs and incident response.
  • Set technical direction and mentor engineers while driving security, identity, and network boundaries.

Docker builds developer tools trusted by over 20 million monthly users and billions of container pulls. It is a globally distributed, remote-first team with a culture of trust, flexibility, and engineering excellence.

$229,500–$260,000/yr
Global

  • Own the technical direction for NodeZero container image build, signing, scanning, and OTA delivery.
  • Design and operate CI/CD pipelines, image hardening, and release engineering standards at scale.
  • Mentor engineers and drive architecture decisions across team boundaries for secure product delivery.

Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company that helps organizations proactively find, fix, and verify exploitable attack vectors. The team is a fusion of former special operations cyber operators and engineers, focused on respect, collaboration, and results.

India

  • Own architecture health of large-scale distributed systems, including failure modes, capacity constraints, and consistency guarantees.
  • Identify and remediate systemic risks such as single points of failure, unbounded queues, and data-loss scenarios.
  • Work hands-on with Node.js/Go and GCP technologies to prototype solutions and resolve complex failures.

This company operates large-scale distributed systems processing billions of events and messages. Its engineering culture values technical rigor, proactive problem solving, and clear cross-team communication.

Mexico

  • Architect and evolve core control and context planes, including service registries, SLO enforcement, and automated canary releases.
  • Own the service chassis and golden path, maintaining multi-language Java/Python libraries, Helm charts, and deployment pipelines.
  • Drive reliability engineering practices, mentor engineers, and lead architectural strategy for distributed systems at production scale.

The company builds large-scale web data products and distributed engineering infrastructure for AI-driven workflows. It operates a remote-first, globally distributed engineering culture focused on reliability, autonomy, and technical excellence.

North America 6w PTO

  • Take an active role in influencing the roadmap and own critical systems for Grafana's next-generation storage layer.
  • Collaborate with your team to design, build, operate, and maintain large distributed systems at scale.
  • Mentor teammates and participate in on-call rotations while embracing open-source culture.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, built on an open-source legacy and a collaborative, innovation-driven culture.

$157,000–$184,000/yr
Europe UK United States 18w maternity 12w paternity

  • Own product features end to end, from design and implementation through rollout and iteration.
  • Extend agentic AI capabilities into customer-facing product experiences.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions while collaborating with Product and front-end teams.

This company builds next-generation products at the intersection of software supply chain security, AI, and developer tooling. It has a small, fast-moving engineering team in a remote-first environment focused on practical tools for developers.

Europe

  • Lead and mentor a high-performing team of senior engineers building distributed systems for decentralized compute and storage.
  • Drive technical direction, stay hands-on with architecture, design, and implementation of P2P networking, compute orchestration, and core platform services.
  • Champion reliability, observability, and engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, incident response, and production readiness.

Pragmatike builds decentralized compute and storage platforms powered by distributed systems. They foster a remote-first, async writing-first engineering culture with a focus on pragmatic decision-making and continuous improvement.

$170,000–$235,000/yr
US

  • Design and implement backend services for licensing, entitlements, feature access, and usage limits across NodeZero's product and APIs.
  • Build and evolve provisioning, admin experience, MSP/MSSP capabilities, and audit logging for a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
  • Operate production services with monitoring, incident response, and a high bar for design quality and test coverage.

Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company that helps organizations proactively find, fix, and verify exploitable attack vectors through its NodeZero autonomous pentesting platform. The team is a fusion of former special operations cyber operators and startup engineers, fostering a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.

US

  • Lead cloud integration development while contributing directly to production code.
  • Define technical direction and work across Kubernetes, databases, and cloud services.
  • Hire, mentor, and support engineers while collaborating with Product and customers.

The company develops cloud integration features that simplify software development in complex, cloud-native environments, enabling developers and AI coding agents to test against real infrastructure. It is a small, high-caliber team that values remote-first asynchronous collaboration and direct product impact.

US

  • Develop core backend infrastructure for blockchain execution and Ethereum scaling.
  • Tackle distributed systems challenges involving reliability, performance, and scalability.
  • Strengthen security and drive projects from investigation through implementation.

They build foundational infrastructure for Ethereum scalability, security, and decentralized applications. They are a remote-first, globally distributed team collaborating across research, product, and blockchain engineering.

US

  • Design, develop, and maintain large-scale distributed database and storage systems.
  • Build performance-critical infrastructure using Go, Rust, C++, or similar systems programming languages.
  • Operate production systems and troubleshoot complex reliability, performance, and availability issues.

This company builds and operates large-scale distributed database and storage infrastructure with a focus on low latency and high availability. They offer a fully remote, multinational work environment and comprehensive healthcare coverage.

India

  • Own the architecture health of a billion-scale distributed system, including failure modes, capacity limits, and cross-deployment interactions.
  • Approve critical-path designs and hunt gaps like single points of failure, unbounded queues, and missing idempotency proactively.
  • Build the parts nobody else can, prototype risky architectural bets, and ship remediations after serious incidents.

HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, HighLevel operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership.

$130,000–$170,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and operate distributed Go microservices and media pipelines for low-latency, high-availability ingestion.
  • Build and evolve integrations across SIPREC, RTP, WebRTC, WebSockets, and enterprise contact center platforms.
  • Lead projects from architecture through production support and participate in on-call rotation.

Pindrop is a cybersecurity company delivering continuous identity verification across voice, video, and digital interactions. It protects billions of high-risk interactions for leading financial institutions, insurers, and healthcare organizations, backed by 300+ patents.

ANZ

  • Own the technical direction and architecture of the releases platform, including the canonical release model.
  • Lead key technical decisions around security, reliability, scalability, and release governance.
  • Build and scale tools that support large-scale engineering teams and critical software delivery workflows.

This company builds a foundational release control platform used by leading engineering teams to ship software safely and efficiently. It fosters a collaborative, inclusive, and remote-first culture, with significant autonomy and opportunities for technical leadership.

$92,880–$131,760/yr
Spain

  • Own and deliver quarterly technical goals for the Communications area, solving ambiguous problems in messaging infrastructure.
  • Design and scale reliable backend services for high-volume communications across multi-region, multi-tenant environments.
  • Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering partners while mentoring teammates and supporting on-call rotation.

Affirm is a financial technology company providing a clear, predictable way to pay over time with no hidden fees. It is a remote-first organization focused on care, transparency, and flexibility, with fully subsidized health coverage and flexible time off.

US UK Canada Unlimited PTO 18w maternity 12w paternity

  • Own features end-to-end from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
  • Design, build, and evolve backend systems (Go, REST/gRPC APIs) for entitlement, policy, and customer onboarding services.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers.

Chainguard delivers hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software to help organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. It is venture-backed by leading investors and serves Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Architect and build robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
  • Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on public cloud and automate resource management.
  • Improve reliability, security, and cost efficiency of cloud services.

ClickHouse builds a real-time analytics database platform and manages ClickHouse Cloud data plane end-to-end with compute, networking, and security. As a rapidly scaling global startup, the company operates across 25+ countries and fosters a flexible, remote-friendly culture with equity and healthcare benefits.

Europe

  • Architect and optimize distributed systems processing billions of documents with low latency.
  • Lead platform modernization and establish engineering best practices.
  • Collaborate with engineers to improve scalability, reliability, and search capabilities.

This company provides AI-driven market intelligence through a high-performance search platform. It is an internationally distributed technology organization serving thousands of enterprise customers, with a collaborative and technically ambitious culture.

India

  • Build and maintain fleet-wide OTA update capabilities for thousands of on-premise appliances.
  • Develop and optimize control-plane connectivity between deployed appliances and AWS infrastructure.
  • Tune network stack performance and conduct profiling to improve reliability across a distributed fleet.

They build and operate core edge infrastructure deployed across thousands of on-premise appliances in school networks. The company offers a remote senior systems engineering role, with a distributed team collaborating across India, the US, and the UK.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build Kubernetes tooling and APIs for orchestrating virtual machine workloads.
  • Develop tooling to inspect, convert, and package VM images for secure, air-gapped environments.
  • Collaborate with Product, UX, and Mission Heroes to turn operational needs into reliable product capabilities.

Defense Unicorns delivers secure software delivery solutions for mission-focused customers, streamlining deployment so they can focus on critical challenges. The team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience across the federal market.