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Inngest

Distributed Systems Engineer – Platform

Inngest

. Architect and implement solutions in our queueing layer, state store, and execution layer (eg.

Posted 3/27/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDistributed SystemsGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Architect and implement solutions in our queueing layer, state store, and execution layer (eg. concurrency over time, or function debounce)
  • 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 we grow
  • Collaborate with team members to expose internal data across metrics stores, APIs, and customer dashboards we host in our cloud UI
  • Work with backend engineers to design APIs that can be used across the Inngest cloud dashboard, dev server and CLIs
  • Dogfood the Inngest product and develop ideas for improvements, features, or integrations
  • Communicate with our users through Github, email and Discord
  • Write technical specs for features and documentation for our users

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 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

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development

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Hard Skills & Tools
Godistributed systemsAPI designsystems architecturethroughput optimizationlatency optimizationtechnical documentationconcurrencyfunction debouncemetrics monitoring
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingjudgmentsimplicity appreciation