Distributed Systems Infrastructure Engineer

Design distributed execution infrastructure for Layer Zero, focusing on runtime architecture, scalable systems, and strict correctness under demanding workloads.
This Systems Engineer role centers on foundational systems supporting Layer Zero’s execution and infrastructure layers, including Zero. You will build robust, high-performance software for distributed execution environments. The work emphasizes networking, state management, scheduling, synchronization, and system scalability.

Key Responsibilities:

Design scalable distributed execution systems with strict correctness requirements
Optimize core runtime, networking, and state management infrastructure
Improve performance from CPU and memory through cluster scale
Investigate race conditions, deadlocks, and production system issues
Guide architecture for scheduling, synchronization, and scalability
Requirements:
Two or more years developing performance-critical or systems-level software
Strong proficiency in systems programming and leveraging AI
Understanding of concurrency, operating systems, and CPU architecture

Experience with low-level storage, compute, or network infrastructure
Interest in distributed and execution-layer systems
Bring distributed systems, infrastructure, and performance engineering expertise to Layer Zero’s scalable execution architecture.