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Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core

Anyscale

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Location
San Francisco
Track
AI Infrastructure
Level
Staff
Salary
$240K–$270K / yr
Posted
September 17, 2026
Source
Ashby

Job description

About Anyscale

What you'll do

  • Own a major technical area of Ray Core end to end, defining the roadmap, identifying the most important technical problems, and driving execution through production.
  • Lead large, technically complex projects spanning multiple engineers, teams, and/or organizations.
  • Set technical direction and make architectural decisions for distributed computing infrastructure used by demanding production workloads.
  • Design, build, and evolve core distributed-systems primitives rather than simply integrating existing platforms or frameworks.
  • Work on problems involving areas such as distributed execution, scheduling, resource management, fault tolerance, concurrency, networking, storage, or system performance.
  • Stay hands-on with implementation and debugging in a systems-oriented codebase, while raising the technical bar for the engineers around you.
  • Help shape the longer-term architecture and evolution of Ray Core as our workloads and scale continue to grow.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of increasing technical ownership.
  • Experience leading substantial projects end to end, including defining the problem, creating a roadmap, making architectural decisions, driving implementation, and owning the outcome in production.
  • Experience leading projects that are larger than a single-engineer effort, typically spanning multiple engineers and lasting multiple quarters.
  • Deep experience with distributed systems and computer systems.
  • Strong systems programming experience in languages such as C++, Rust, Java, or similar lower-level languages.
  • Strong understanding of systems concepts such as multithreading/concurrency, distributed coordination, resource management, fault tolerance, performance, or networking.
  • Experience building foundational systems such as databases, streaming systems, distributed runtimes, operating systems, schedulers, storage systems, Spark, Kafka, or similar infrastructure is highly relevant.
  • A track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of the teams around you.
  • Nice to have: Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects.

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