Member Of Technical Staff - Distributed Systems Engineer

TL;DR

Member of Technical Staff - Distributed Systems Engineer: Build and operate the core shared services that power research, training, and production environments with an accent on reliability, scalability, and performance. Focus on developing APIs, SDKs, and internal platforms that enable high-velocity experimentation and iteration.

Location: New York; London; San Francisco

Company

Reflection’s mission is to build open superintelligence and make it accessible to all.

What you will do

• Build and operate shared services that multiple teams rely on across research and production workflows.
• Define and uphold reliability targets through SLIs, SLOs, and healthy on-call practices.
• Maintain strong 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.
• Reduce operational burden through better tooling, standardization, and platform patterns that scale across teams.

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.
• Collaborative, clear communicator, and comfortable working across research and infra boundaries.

Culture & Benefits

• Top-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain the best talent globally.
• Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Life & family: Fully paid parental leave for all new parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys. Financial support for family planning.
• Benefits & balance: paid time off when you need it, relocation support, and more perks that optimize your time.
• Opportunities to connect with teammates: lunch and dinner are provided daily. We have regular off-sites and team celebrations.