Backend | Distributed Systems Engineer
Restate·Senior·Remote · San Francisco Bay Area·$220k–$260k USD
Posted Sep 26, 2026·restate.dev
Overview
Software is changing.
Applications are becoming increasingly long-running, stateful, autonomous, and distributed. As systems grow more complex, engineers spend more and more time solving the same infrastructure problems: retries, failures, orchestration, state management, communication, and recovery.
We don't think every engineering team should have to build those capabilities themselves.
At Restate, we're building durable execution as a foundational infrastructure primitive—making reliability a default property of modern applications instead of an engineering burden.
We're looking for a Backend / Distributed Systems Engineer to help us build and evolve that infrastructure.
You'll work on the core systems that make Restate fast, reliable, and scalable—from distributed execution and state management to storage, messaging, and production infrastructure. You'll have the opportunity to work closely with other engineers building real production systems, giving you a direct view into how the systems you build are used and where they can be improved.
If you enjoy distributed systems, backend infrastructure, and solving difficult engineering problems, we'd love to talk.
About Restate
Restate (https://restate.dev/) is a lightweight runtime that turns services, workflows, and AI applications into durable processes.
Developers adopt Restate so they can focus on business logic while Restate handles the challenges of building resilient, scalable applications—retries, state, communication, orchestration, and recovery.
Restate itself is built as a low-latency durable execution runtime in Rust, designed for production scale with its own optimized storage engine. Developers can build Restate applications using TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, Rust, or Ruby.
Today, Restate powers production workloads at Fortune 500 companies—including Tier 1 financial institutions—as well as fast-growing infrastructure and AI companies building mission-critical systems.
Our team includes the creators of Apache Flink and engineers who built large-scale distributed systems at Meta. We care deeply about building infrastructure developers genuinely enjoy using, with thoughtful engineering and elegant systems.
The Role
As a Backend / Distributed Systems Engineer, you'll work across the systems that make Restate a reliable foundation for modern applications.
You'll design and build backend infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer-facing capabilities that need to operate reliably at production scale. You'll work on problems involving distributed execution, state, storage, messaging, concurrency, fault tolerance, and recovery.
