Distributed Systems Engineer

Fluidstack, San Francisco, CA +3

What you need

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would. https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fluidstack/05c2e69c-42f9-4fcb-9cf0-a467aaf98f1c

You treat toil as a bug. If something requires a human to do it twice, you build the thing that makes it not require a human.
You design APIs that age well. You've felt the pain of a leaky abstraction at scale and you don't repeat it.
You move toward ambiguity, not away from it. You walk into the fog, build the map, and explain it to everyone else.
You learn at a steep slope. You reach real competence in an unfamiliar domain fast. We value this over existing expertise.
You carry a pager without flinching. You run the incident, write the postmortem, fix the systemic cause, and move on.
You're fluent with AI tooling. LLM APIs, MCP servers, and agentic frameworks, and you drive Claude Code, Cursor, or similar every day.

Fluidstack, San Francisco, CA +3

You treat toil as a bug. If something requires a human to do it twice, you build the thing that makes it not require a human.
You design APIs that age well. You've felt the pain of a leaky abstraction at scale and you don't repeat it.
You move toward ambiguity, not away from it. You walk into the fog, build the map, and explain it to everyone else.
You learn at a steep slope. You reach real competence in an unfamiliar domain fast. We value this over existing expertise.
You carry a pager without flinching. You run the incident, write the postmortem, fix the systemic cause, and move on.
You're fluent with AI tooling. LLM APIs, MCP servers, and agentic frameworks, and you drive Claude Code, Cursor, or similar every day.