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Inngest

Distributed Systems Engineer - Platform

US/Remote +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Apr 15, 2025

Location
US/Remote
San Francisco
Experience
Several years working on distributed systems; two or more years using Go or a similar statically typed language professionally.

About the job

Build and improve Inngest’s distributed systems platform, including its queueing, state storage, and durable execution layers, to support high-throughput developer tools.

What you'll do

  • Architect and implement changes to the queueing, state-store, and execution layers; improve throughput and latency at high request volumes.
  • Contribute to systems architecture, infrastructure, APIs, metrics, and customer dashboards.
  • Collaborate with users and teammates, and write technical specifications and documentation.

What they ask for

  • Professional experience with Go or a similar statically typed language for two or more years.
  • Experience architecting or helping design systems that handle scale.
  • Understanding of engineering trade-offs and how to observe, monitor, and maintain designed systems.

Nice to have

  • Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC2, ISO27001, or HIPAA; networking knowledge; or systems management experience such as SRE work.

Tools

Go, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, PubSub/Kafka, k8s, gRPC, GraphQL, REST, AWS

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