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# Staff Systems Engineer

- **Company:** LTD Global
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $280,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Linux, File Systems, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Hypervisor, Quick EMUlator (QEMU), Virtual Machines, Virtualization Technology, Ceph (Software), Build Management, Bare Metal, Free and Open-Source Software
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25196_01038bd167e125754a4607d37df37cf7

## About the Role

* Staff-level or equivalent experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure.
 * Proven experience personally architecting and delivering critical production systems.
 * Deep understanding of Linux systems, kernel-level engineering, virtualization, distributed storage, and bare-metal infrastructure.
 * Strong experience with technologies such as Firecracker, QEMU, Cloud Hypervisor, Ceph, eBPF, cgroups, and namespaces.
 * Strong programming experience with Go, Rust, and/or C.
 * Experience optimizing performance, storage, networking, or I/O at significant scale.
 * Demonstrated ability to materially influence the technical direction of an engineering organization as a senior individual contributor.
 * Ability to independently lead complex, ambiguous infrastructure initiatives from concept through production.
 * Strong technical leadership and mentoring capabilities.

Highly valued: Experience joining a high-growth technology company early and helping its infrastructure scale substantially. Publications, patents, open-source contributions, or conference presentations related to systems engineering are also a plus.

## Description

This is a senior individual-contributor opportunity for an exceptional systems engineer who has architected and delivered mission-critical infrastructure at scale. You'll work closely with technical co-founders while owning architectural direction across distributed compute, virtualization, storage, and bare-metal infrastructure., * Own and drive architectural direction for critical infrastructure platforms operating tens of millions of virtual machines monthly.

 * Take ownership of production reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence as compute capacity rapidly expands.
 * Partner directly with technical co-founders to translate product and business strategy into long-term technical roadmaps.
 * Design and build systems at the kernel and filesystem level, including work with eBPF, cgroups, namespaces, and low-level I/O optimization.
 * Build and optimize distributed infrastructure operating at petabyte scale.
 * Lead complex infrastructure initiatives from initial problem definition through architecture, implementation, and production delivery.
 * Solve highly ambiguous engineering problems where both the problem and technical solution may need to be defined.
 * Mentor senior engineers and serve as a technical force multiplier across the engineering organization.
 * Establish and elevate engineering standards as the platform and team continue to scale.