Systems Engineer
- Salary
- $180,000 - $300,000 per year
- Level
- Mid
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 23 October 2026.
About the role
About the company
Our client is a software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own low-level infrastructure work for a cloud compute platform, taking major components from first design through production. The role centers on performance, isolation and reliability close to the hardware, working alongside senior technical leadership in a very small team.
What you'll do
- Create core runtime and compute components that keep workloads securely separated from one another.
- Take full responsibility for major platform components and carry them into production use.
- Partner with technical leadership on durable state, checkpointing and recovery features for continuously running workloads.
- Shorten startup times and tune performance along latency-sensitive code paths.
- Architect storage, scheduling and network layers able to grow across multiple data centers.
- Investigate problems, measure behavior and benchmark components under realistic load, always measuring before tuning.
- Help shape the longer-term infrastructure plan, including hardware-accelerated and on-premises capacity.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Strong grounding in operating systems internals, memory management, storage or networking at the lowest layers.
- A track record of driving an ambitious systems project from start to finish, in industry, open source or academic research.
- Public, checkable evidence of your work, such as code contributions, papers, technical articles or an active code repository.
- Hands-on exposure to virtualization, hypervisors or container runtimes.
- Working fluency in a systems language such as Rust or C.
- Signs of exceptional drive, for example competitive sport, hackathon success, competitive programming or visible technical commentary.
- A finished undergraduate degree or an equivalent demanding program, in any discipline.
Bonus points
- Background in replicated or consensus-based data stores.
- Exposure to accelerator hardware or machine learning infrastructure.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 180,000 to 300,000 per year
- Equity
- Performance bonus
- Relocation support
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week
- Full-time
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
C · Rust
Rare in Raydar's other 299 open postings.
Compared with Raydar's other open jobs.
Other openings for this role
2 open postings for this role in San Francisco, first posted 23 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.
- 23 October 2026 – open
- 23 October 2026 – open (this posting)
Salary context
80 other open postings titled Systems Engineer state a salary: median USD 117,500 to USD 180,500 a year.
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