Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Inngest

full-time

Posted on: 9/20/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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💰 $160,000 - $220,000 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

CloudDistributed SystemsGoGRPCOpen SourcePythonRedisTypeScript

About the role

Curate the developer experience for Inngest’s Execution layer and design clean, idiomatic APIs
Architect and implement solutions in the execution layer and core systems (eg. step APIs, orchestration, etc.)
Plan and implement improvements on throughput and latency at hundreds of thousands to millions of requests per second
Contribute to systems architecture and infrastructure changes as the platform grows
Work in Golang, Typescript, Python, and/or other languages to help build and shape SDKs
Collaborate with systems and console teams and backend engineers to design APIs used across the Inngest cloud dashboard, dev server and CLIs
Track metrics and data across function runs, events, traces, and telemetry
Dogfood the Inngest product and develop ideas for improvements, features, or integrations
Communicate with users through Github, email and Discord
Write technical specs for features and documentation for users
Requires working time overlap with US PST; ideal location SF Bay Area (but may live anywhere in the United States)

3+ years working on distributed systems
Experience with Go (Golang) in production
Architected or been involved in designing systems that can handle massive-scale
Experience working with Golang, Typescript, Python and/or other languages to help build and shape SDKs
Working time overlap with US PST
Ideally live in the SF Bay Area, but for strong candidates you may live anywhere in the United States
Deep knowledge of Typescript, Python or other typed languages (plus point)
Experience with Redis and ClickHouse (plus point)
Good understanding of gRPC and Protocol Buffers (protobuf) (plus point)
Experience contributing and managing open source, user-facing code (plus point)