System Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

What you'll do

• Design and deliver core components of next-generation productivity platforms for chip design engineers.
• Develop reliable userspace infrastructure for long-running engineering workflows on bare-metal Linux hosts.
• Build state coordination over NFS ensuring atomicity, idempotency, and partial-write recovery without privileged operations.
• Improve orchestration around IBM LSF for job submission, tracking, retries, and log capture.
• Convert legacy codebases into modern systems using incremental migration techniques from Perl to Go.
• Debug and improve performance and reliability across Linux and Kubernetes environments.
• Translate ambiguous engineering workflows into durable, production-ready systems.

What we're looking for

• B.S. in CS/EE or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience developing and operating production software in Go and/or Python.
• Strong Linux fundamentals including processes, filesystems, permissions, synchronization, locks, concurrency, and debugging.
• Solid distributed-systems thinking regarding failures, retries, timeouts, backoff, idempotency, and operational rigor.
• Experience building long-runtime automation or services on shared compute clusters or batch schedulers.
• Ability to translate high-level goals into safe delivery plans with instrumentation and staged rollouts.
• Hands-on experience with shared filesystems at scale (NFS) or coordination patterns on eventually-consistent storage (preferred).
• Experience with batch job scheduling, shared compute fleets, or build systems (preferred).