Zanskar
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Salt Lake City, Utah · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 7+ years of software engineering experience in a business environment; ideally with a heavy scientific component.
About the job
Design, build, and scale a reliable distributed computing system for Zanskar’s multi-physics well-targeting engine and scientific research workloads.
What you'll do
- Lead the design and implementation of distributed computing systems, including fault-tolerant architectures and workload orchestration.
- Develop and maintain persistent data storage, system observability, and cloud resources.
- Collaborate with scientific teams and share distributed-systems expertise.
What they ask for
- Experience leading the design and implementation of distributed computing systems.
- Experience with fault-tolerant, resilient event-driven architectures and orchestration of large-scale cloud workloads.
- Fluency in Python and SQL.
- Experience with persistent data storage, observability, and cloud resources.
Nice to have
- Experience with experiment tracking, optimization, applied algorithms, reinforcement learning, or other AI/ML techniques.
- Web development experience or familiarity with geoscience concepts and applications.
Tools
Python, SQL, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitHub, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi
AI focus
The role develops a multi-physics well-targeting engine; AI/ML techniques, including reinforcement learning, are listed as a plus.
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