Dedalus Labs
Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Performance
$120K–$250K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available.
About the job
Improves the systems engineers use to build, test, deploy, and operate software, with a focus on development speed, performance, and reliable delivery.
What you'll do
- Profile and optimize builds, tests, CI queues, artifact transfers, and local workflows; establish baselines and verify improvements.
- Design and improve internal platforms, APIs, services, CI/CD, GitOps, and release and recovery processes.
- Build and operate Linux, container, virtual machine, Kubernetes, and homelab infrastructure; investigate capacity, networking, throughput, and latency.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering skills and experience building or operating infrastructure others rely on.
- Depth in at least one area relevant to the role and ability to learn adjacent layers; examples include systems languages, Linux debugging, API design, build systems, CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes, observability, or infrastructure as code.
- Ability to investigate problems with evidence, measure performance changes, and take responsibility for outcomes.
- Full-time, in-person work in San Francisco.
Nice to have
- Experience with Buck2, Bazel, Blaze, remote execution, or build cache design; Terraform familiarity is useful.
- Experience scaling production services to 100,000 or more requests per second, or equivalent depth on another demanding workload; hands-on hardware and networking experience is a plus.
Pay
$120,000-$250,000 USD (base salary); $120K – $250K (compensation; type not specified)
Tools
Go, Rust, C++, TypeScript, Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions
AI focus
Use modern AI coding tools to accelerate exploration, implementation, testing, and review, while understanding and taking responsibility for the resulting code.
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