# Distributed Systems Engineer - Platform at Inngest

- Company: Inngest
- What the company does: Build reliable background jobs, workflows, and AI agents without extra infrastructure. Automatic retries, flow control, and step-level observability. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.inngest.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: US/Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2025-04-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inngest/ae72d036-b98b-4abb-8454-a687870cf0ca
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/inngest-distributed-systems-engineer-platform/

## About the role

To be able to build something that scales and functions well, a Systems Engineer needs to be both a generalist and a specialist. Along with our existing team, you'll be responsible for the inner workings of our queueing system (eg. working on debounce, concurrency over time), state store (handling terabytes to petabytes of storage), the API layers in-between, and sometimes the high-level SDKs that our users build with.

## What they're looking for

- You've been working on distributed systems for several years
- You've used Go or similar statically typed languages professionally for two years or more
- You've architected, or been involved in designing, systems that handle scale
- You understand engineering trade-offs and can make correct judgement calls on approaches available
- You understand how to observe, monitor, and maintain the systems you design
- You appreciate simplicity, even if it's harder to design and build

Tags: Engineering