Relace
Distributed Systems Engineer
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- Around five or more years.
About the job
Build and operate the routing, capacity-management, and fleet-scaling systems behind Relace’s globally distributed inference cloud.
What you'll do
- Develop the routing layer that selects machines for inference requests and handles demand exceeding available capacity.
- Build and operate systems that scale a multi-cloud GPU fleet as demand changes.
- Work on Relace’s Rust services and Kubernetes services managing the fleet.
What they ask for
- Around five or more years building production systems where latency and failure behavior mattered.
- Strong knowledge of a systems language such as Rust, C++ or Go.
- Ownership of a production system that ran under load, and detailed experience debugging a production failure.
- Kubernetes experience extending it, particularly on low-reliability infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Project experience with a scheduler or load balancer; work with spot or preemptible capacity.
- Exposure to AI serving systems.
Tools
Rust, Kubernetes, C++, Go
AI focus
Build infrastructure for globally distributed AI inference, including request routing, capacity management, and fleet scaling.
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