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Arcadeai

Distributed Systems Engineer

2mo ago
200000 –300000 USD / yearUSA
Arcadeai

Distributed Systems Engineer

2mo ago
200000 –300000 USD / yearUSA

Building the infrastructure to enable AI applications to take real-world actions through a tools catalog and platform.

Responsibilities

  • Founder-Market Fit : Our CEO previously founded Stormpath (acquired by Okta), where he created the first Authentication API for developers. He's done this before - and this time the market is 10x bigger. Our CTO led the vector database team at Redis, shipped 100+ LLM applications, and is a contributor to LangChain and LlamaIndex. He knows this space better than anyone.
  • Dream Team : We've assembled authentication, integrations, distributed systems, and AI experts from Okta, Redis, Microsoft, Splunk, Ngrok, Google, Airbyte, Disney, and HPE who've built and founded multiple successful developer platforms.
  • Perfect Timing : We're at the inflection point of AI adoption. The biggest problem isn't better models - it's connecting AI to real-world actions. That's us.
  • Massive Market : We're building critical infrastructure for the biggest technological shift of our generation. Every AI app will need what we're building.
  • Backed By The Best: Our investors have backed Databricks, Clickhouse, MongoDB, Perplexity, Cohere, ScaleAI, Confluent, Elastic, and Firebase. They see what we see - this is going to be huge.
  • 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 (for example, we helped write the 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 (and your) brand.

Nice to have

  • Experience building developer tools or SDKs
  • Familiarity with LLMs and AI frameworks (Langchain, LlamaIndex, etc)
  • Open-source contributions
  • Experience with high-scale distributed systems
  • Experience leading teams and mentoring more junior developers
  • Familiarity with Typescript and a relevant frontend framework (e.g. React)
  • You’ve been a startup founder or early-state startup employee before and love it
  • Notes :
  • This is an in-person role located in our San Francisco (SOMA) office.

Other

  • Everyone's talking about AI. But here's the truth: ChatGPT can't send your emails. It can't book your flights. It can't even order you lunch.
  • Why? Because AI is trapped in a chat box. It can't take real actions in the real world.
  • We are changing that forever. We're not just building another AI company - we're creating the infrastructure that will power every AI application you'll use in the future.
  • Every AI app needs agentic "tools" - special functions that let AI models take real actions. Without tools, AI can only chat. With tools, AI can actually do things. We're building the definitive tools catalog and tool-calling platform that will unlock AI's true potential. Think Zapier for AI Actions. Think Auth0 for AI. Think really big.
  • We are building the runtime and registry for AI/LLM tools. You will define both how AI interacts with the world, and how humans build and manage those tools. This includes creating production-grade integrations, and the services & toolkits that run them... and the solving the unique problems of AI/LLM usage along the way. We are building a SaaS application first, and then allowing folks to run part of that infrastructure on-site via hybrid deployments.
  • This role is primarily focused on our back-end services, but as an early member of a startup, you’ll be working up-and-down the stack. We build our software with Go, Python, and Typescript, and expect you to be a pro in at least one of those. We are looking for people who constantly ship and don't get stuck - we are looking for folks who are always learning and and able to apply that knowledge to their work and teach it to the team.
  • An insatiable desire to ship.
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience comprising of: 5+ years of backend development experience with either Python, Go, Ruby, Typescript, or a 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.
  • We're not just building a product - we're leading a movement to transform AI from just chatbots to agents that can take actions against real systems. This is your chance to be at the forefront of that revolution.
  • If you want to look back in 5 years and say, "I helped build that", then we want to talk to you. Ready to make AI actually useful? Apply Now
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