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# Staff Systems Engineer

- **Company:** DKMRBH Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $205,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Linux, File Systems, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Hypervisor, Quick EMUlator (QEMU), System Programming, Ceph (Software)
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us6ca8cdf1aeb915db90398c513f32df9c

## About the Role

8+ years in low-level systems or distributed infrastructure engineering

 - Built and owned large-scale distributed systems at prestigious orgs
 - Staff/Principal-level IC who changed direction/trajectory of an eng team
 - Low-level systems experience: kernel, filesystems, Linux primitives
 - Systems programming in Go, Rust, or C/C++
 - Experience with Firecracker, QEMU, or Cloud Hypervisor
 - Distributed storage at scale, e.g. Ceph

## Description

Own architectural direction for infrastructure orchestrating tens of millions of Firecracker VMs monthly across a global bare-metal fleet. You'll design systems at the kernel/filesystem level using eBPF, cgroups, namespaces to optimize petabyte-scale performance.
**Key Responsibilities**

 - Own architectural direction for critical infrastructure platforms
 - Drive reliability, performance, operational excellence as compute triples
 - Work with technical co-founders on long-term technical roadmaps
 - Lead complex infrastructure initiatives from problem to delivery
 - Mentor senior engineers and raise engineering standards


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