Systems Engineer
- Salary
- $200,000 - $300,000 per year
- Level
- Mid
- Visa
- Not offered
Not stated in the posting: work type.
Open. First seen 23 October 2026.
About the role
About the company
Our client is an early-stage software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take ownership of core infrastructure for a software platform, creating and growing isolated compute and storage systems. Collaborate with technical leadership and fellow engineers, carrying work from initial design through release and day-to-day operation.
What you'll do
- Build and grow secure compute orchestration that safely runs code from many separate users.
- Take charge of foundational infrastructure pieces such as compute, isolation layers and distributed storage during a shift toward a hosted offering.
- Partner with engineering leadership, engineers and customers on problems that sit between infrastructure and product.
- Architect storage and container components that scale well, anticipating where they might break in shared environments.
- Drive infrastructure initiatives from early design choices through rollout, delivering in small steps.
- Handle releases, monitoring, operational documentation and on-call duty for the services you deliver.
- Continuously raise the reliability, speed and cost efficiency of those services.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- At least 4 years of infrastructure engineering experience, with 4 to 8 years being the typical range.
- A track record of building core systems, not only operations or DevOps work.
- Hands-on background running shared compute platforms with attention to tenant separation, uptime and spend.
- Detailed knowledge of how container and sandbox technologies work internally, beyond everyday usage.
- Proficiency in a low-level systems language, for example Rust or Go.
- Solid grounding in Linux fundamentals.
- Prior experience at companies focused on containers, sandboxing, storage or infrastructure.
- A product-minded approach that links technical decisions to the user experience.
- US work authorization without needing visa sponsorship or transfer.
Bonus points
- Experience at early-stage startups.
- Experience implementing file systems or databases.
- Public code projects involving containers or infrastructure.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site
- Full-time
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Golang · Linux · 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 (this posting)
- 23 October 2026 – open
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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