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Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core
$240K–$270K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Own and evolve Ray Core’s distributed-systems infrastructure, setting technical direction and leading complex projects through production.
What you'll do
- Define the roadmap and architecture for a major Ray Core technical area, and drive its implementation and production outcomes.
- Lead technically complex projects spanning multiple engineers, teams, or organizations.
- Build and debug distributed-systems primitives while mentoring engineers and shaping Ray Core’s long-term architecture.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of software engineering experience with increasing technical ownership.
- Experience leading substantial, multi-engineer projects end to end, including roadmap, architecture, implementation, and production outcomes.
- Deep experience with distributed systems and computer systems.
- Strong systems programming experience in C++, Rust, Java, or similar lower-level languages, and understanding of systems concepts such as concurrency, fault tolerance, performance, or networking.
Nice to have
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects.
- Experience building foundational systems such as databases, streaming systems, distributed runtimes, operating systems, schedulers, storage systems, Spark, or Kafka.
Pay
$240K – $270K (USD base salary)
Tools
Ray Core, C++, Rust, Java, Spark, Kafka
AI focus
Develop Ray Core, a distributed-computing infrastructure used to scale machine-learning and AI workloads.
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