# Member of Technical Staff - System Engineering at Phylo

- Company: Phylo
- What the company does: Phylo is an applied research lab dedicated to studying agentic intelligence to accelerate discoveries for every biomedical scientist. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://phylo.bio
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: South San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-05
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/phylo/afd4a9ff-e473-4a1a-95c2-cb798587c554
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/phylo-member-of-technical-staff-system-engineering/

## About the role

We’re looking for an engineer to build and operate the core systems that power Phylo’s agentic AI platform in production. You’ll design and implement the distributed systems, compute environments, and service architecture that allow our AI agents to run reliably at scale — across cloud-native deployments and enterprise environments. We are an AI-native engineering team: we use coding agents heavily, move fast, and hold a very high bar for engineering excellence.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years of industry experience in backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering
- Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, or similar)
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production
- Deep hands-on experience with containerization and Kubernetes
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent)
- Experience operating systems on at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

Tags: Technical Staff