Distributed Systems Engineer - Platform
RemoteFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Systems Engineers at Inngest build the core of our product: the durable execution layer, queueing system, state stores, and the distributed systems that connect them together. Role involves building scalable, high-performance distributed systems with a strong product mindset for developer tools.
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement solutions in our queueing layer, state store, and execution layer (e.g. 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
Qualifications
- 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
Skills
Required:Distributed systems designGo (Golang)Systems observability
Benefits
- (Not specified in the description)
Last updated Jul 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Inngest
AI and backend workflows, orchestrated at any scale
Inngest's durable functions replace queues, state management, and scheduling to enable any developer to write reliable, multi-step code faster without touching infrastructure.
AI & AgentsDurable WorkflowsPlatformQueueingWorkflow EnginesBackground JobsScheduled and cron jobs