Raydar
Systems Engineer
$180K–$300K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Education
- Finished undergraduate degree or an equivalent demanding program, in any discipline.
About the job
Build and take low-level infrastructure components for a cloud compute platform from design through production, focusing on performance, workload isolation, and reliability.
What you'll do
- Develop secure runtime and compute components and own major components through production.
- Build durable state, checkpointing, and recovery features; improve startup time and latency-sensitive performance.
- Architect scalable storage, scheduling, and networking layers, and benchmark components under realistic loads.
What they ask for
- Strong grounding in operating systems internals or low-level memory management, storage, or networking.
- Track record of delivering an ambitious systems project from start to finish, in industry, open source, or academic research.
- Public, checkable evidence of work and hands-on exposure to virtualization, hypervisors, or container runtimes.
- Working fluency in a systems language such as Rust or C; finished undergraduate degree or equivalent demanding program in any discipline.
Nice to have
- Background in replicated or consensus-based data stores.
- Exposure to accelerator hardware or machine learning infrastructure.
Pay
USD 180,000 to 300,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Rust, C
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