# Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems at Hedra

- Company: Hedra
- What the company does: Hedra builds models that generate, perceive, and predict the visual world — and the platform that runs them in production. Backed by a16z and a16z speedrun.
- Company website: https://www.hedra.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $175K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hedra/da0ed497-8952-4dea-8057-91c32de437f5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hedra-senior-staff-software-engineer-distributed-systems/

## About the role

We’re looking for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer with deep experience building and operating distributed production systems. You’ll work on the infrastructure underlying Hedra’s inference platform: systems that schedule and route compute, serve models efficiently, handle high-throughput workloads, and remain reliable as both traffic and the number of models we support grow.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building distributed backend or infrastructure systems
- A track record of designing and operating high-availability production services at meaningful scale
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including experience reasoning about concurrency, queues, retries, failure recovery, consistency, backpressure, capacity, and system behavior under load
- Experience debugging complex production systems across multiple layers of the stack
- Strong judgment around architectural tradeoffs, particularly reliability, performance, complexity, and operational cost
- Experience with CI/CD, comprehensive testing and validation strategies, monitoring, alerting, and production operations

Tags: Engineering