Member of Technical Staff - Distributed Systems Engineer

Reflection AI
New York, London, San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Skills: []

Join a distributed systems engineering team building core shared services powering research, training, and production at Reflection. You'll design and operate APIs, SDKs, and platform tooling, ensure reliability with SLIs/SLOs, and optimize performance under heavy load. Collaborate across research and infrastructure to enable high-velocity experimentation and scalable, open-weight AI foundations.

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Reflection AI
Reflection AI
4 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Distributed Systems Engineer

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Job Summary

Join a distributed systems engineering team building core shared services powering research, training, and production at Reflection. You'll design and operate APIs, SDKs, and platform tooling, ensure reliability with SLIs/SLOs, and optimize performance under heavy load. Collaborate across research and infrastructure to enable high-velocity experimentation and scalable, open-weight AI foundations.
Location: New York, London, San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and operate the core shared services that power research, training, and production environments across teams.
  • •Define and uphold reliability targets through SLIs, SLOs, and healthy on-call practices.
  • •Maintain operational readiness with runbooks, incident playbooks, and capacity planning.
  • •Ensure correctness and performance under load, addressing consistency, tail latency, and failure modes.
  • •Develop APIs, SDKs, and internal platforms that enable high-velocity experimentation and iteration.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRelocation

Key Requirements

  • •Strong software engineering background with experience shipping production-grade systems.
  • •Experience designing APIs, services, or developer platforms that handle large-scale data or compute.
  • •Comfortable navigating complex codebases, debugging hard problems, and optimizing for reliability and speed.
  • •Thrive in a high-agency, fast-paced startup environment; bias toward action and impact.
  • •Excited about zero to one challenges, building new systems rather than maintaining legacy ones.
Experience:Artificial intelligenceDistributed systemsResearchOpen-weight models
Tech Stack:GoRustC++ProtobufGRPCKubernetesContainersSRETail latencyAPIs

Company Brief

Reflection AI
Builds frontier autonomous AI systems focused on autonomous coding agents (product: Asimov) to create organizational superintelligence, founded by former DeepMind/Google researchers and hiring across SF, NYC, London.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2024
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