Zanskar
Senior/Staff Backend Engineer
Salt Lake City, Utah · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in software engineering in a business environment; scientific experience is described as ideal.
About the job
Develop and maintain a scalable, reliable distributed computing system for Zanskar’s multi-physics well-targeting engine, supporting scientific research and geothermal discovery.
What you'll do
- Lead the design and implementation of distributed computing systems and scale the existing system for reliability.
- Build and manage resilient event-driven architectures, workload orchestration, and persistent data storage.
- Ensure system observability and collaborate with scientific teams; share distributed-systems expertise.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of software engineering experience in a business environment.
- Experience leading the design and implementation of distributed computing systems.
- Experience with resilient event-driven architectures, workload orchestration, data storage, observability, and cloud resources.
- Fluency in Python and SQL.
Nice to have
- Experience with experiment tracking, optimization, applied algorithm development, reinforcement learning, or other AI/ML techniques.
- Web development or familiarity with geoscience concepts and applications.
Tools
Python, SQL, GitHub Actions, GitHub, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, GCP
AI focus
The role supports a multi-physics well-targeting engine that uses machine learning modeling; AI/ML techniques such as reinforcement learning are listed as a plus.
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