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Distributed Systems Engineer

Arcade AI, Inc.· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$230kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Backend-focused role building the runtime, backplane, and tool integrations for AI/LLM tooling, with governance, security, and production-grade delivery in a startup environment.

Responsibilities

  • Build the infrastructure to manage the backplane for all future AI tools
  • Design, build, test, and deploy high-performance, secure, production-grade software
  • Develop SDKs and frameworks that make it easy for other developers to build custom tools
  • Help set industry standards for tool calling and authorization (e.g., MCP authorization spec)
  • Create integrations with major platforms and LLMs (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
  • Shape the roadmap for the team
  • Build leverage (via AI) - projects that take a week today should take a day next time
  • Share your work with our customers and community, building our brand

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience comprising of:
  • 5+ years of backend development experience with Python, Go, Ruby, Typescript, or similar language and API & Web frameworks
  • 2+ years of experience with infrastructure and deployment (AWS/GCP, Terraform, Helm, etc)
  • Strong experience building and maintaining production APIs
  • Track record of writing clean, well-documented, well-tested code
  • User-centered approach to designing developer-centric products and tools

Skills

Required:Backend software engineeringInfrastructure & deploymentProduction APIs
Nice to have:Developer tools / SDKs

Benefits

  • competitive salary
  • equity
  • benefits
  • Notes: In-person role located in San Francisco (SOMA)
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Arcade AI, Inc.

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Arcade is an AI Tool-calling Platform. For the first time, AI can securely act on behalf of users through Arcade's authenticated integrations, or "tools" in AI lingo.

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