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# Systems Engineer (Infrastructure)

- **Company:** ADAPT, Inc
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Linux, Distributed Data Store, TypeScript, Kubernetes
- **Published:** September 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/systems-engineer-infrastructure-adapt-company-10149391

## About the Role

* 4+ years of engineering experience, with substantial infrastructure ownership, ideally at an early-stage company.
 * Experience operating multi-tenant compute systems, including isolation, reliability, and cost.
 * Strong Rust or Go skills, Linux fundamentals, and fluency in TypeScript or an appetite to learn.
 * Hands-on cloud, Kubernetes, and container or microVM experience, including runtimes such as Firecracker or gVisor.

## Description

You'll own the systems that let Adapt agents run code and complete real work, from sandbox orchestration to storage and core infrastructure. This is a product-focused engineering role. You'll work with customers, ship user-facing improvements, and measure success through reliability, performance, and cost.

We prefer candidates who can work from our Presidio office in San Francisco. We're open to remote work or relocation for the right candidate.

What you will do

 * Build and scale secure, multi-tenant sandbox orchestration and distributed storage.
 * Improve the reliability, performance, and cost of customer workloads.
 * Own deployments, observability, runbooks, and on-call support for the systems you ship.
 * Work directly with customers and engineers to solve problems across infrastructure and product.
 * Make clear architecture decisions, ship in small increments, and help teammates grow.