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# Foundations Engineer (Deep Infra)

- **Company:** ROX, INC.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Software Debugging, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Backend, Build Management, Low Latency, Real Time Data
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/3102dc15-d15c-41dc-bf0c-3da292e7fee3

## About the Role

* distributed data platforms
 * streaming compute systems
 * real-time analytics infrastructure
 * distributed query engines
 * high-scale backend services

Strong intuition for latency, reliability, and scalability tradeoffs.

Experience operating systems where real-world traffic exposes edge cases quickly.

Comfort debugging complex distributed systems in production.

A bias toward shipping systems, learning from production, and improving them continuously.

## Description

We are hiring a Foundations Engineer (Deep Infra) to design and operate the systems that power Rox's agent runtime.

This role sits at the intersection of:

 * distributed systems
 * real-time data infrastructure
 * agent orchestration
 * decisioning systems

You will work on infrastructure similar to what powers large-scale data platforms - but optimized for continuous AI decision loops rather than batch analytics.

Many of the systems we are building resemble components from:

 * streaming compute systems
 * distributed query engines
 * large-scale event processing pipelines
 * matching and routing infrastructure

But with a new constraint: AI agents must operate continuously and reliably in production environments.

What You'll Do

Design and build core distributed systems powering Rox agents.

Build infrastructure for real-time context ingestion and retrieval.

Develop systems that enable low-latency agent decisioning at scale.

Improve reliability, observability, and fault tolerance across agent infrastructure.

Build execution frameworks that support long-running agent workflows.

Collaborate closely with product engineers and forward deployed engineers to translate infrastructure capabilities into customer impact.

Ship production systems quickly and evolve them based on real-world usage.


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