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This team keeps our browsers running at scale, solving massive distributed systems challenges and making sure our platform is fast, reliable, and scalable.\r\nWhat You'll DoBuild, operate, and grow the Browserbase Core platform designing and developing robust, scalable distributed backends with developer-friendly APIs.\r\nWork closely with the rest of Engineering, gathering input and providing great support so every team can build on Core with confidence.\r\nHelp define, scope, and review key projects; set priorities on the roadmap; and sequence deliverables that push the platform forward.\r\nEstablish and reinforce best practices around development, operations, and reliability.\r\nContinuously enhance the platform to meet rapidly expanding customer adoption and demand.\r\nInvestigate, troubleshoot, and resolve operational issues that arise in production.\r\nDocument as you go and share your knowledge with the team.\r\nTechnical SkillsDeep experience building and scaling distributed systems, with scale on the order of hundreds or thousands of instances.\r\nStrong expertise coding in Go or Typescript; bonus if you've touched Firecracker or similar VMMs.\r\nFamiliarity with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes and Docker, message queues, relational databases, automated testing, performance optimization, and zero-downtime multi-region deployments.\r\nA systems-thinking mindset you understand how infrastructure choices ripple all the way up to customer experience.\r\nYou're A Good Fit If You...Have high agency: you can set direction, make judgment calls, and drive projects forward without waiting for perfect clarity.\r\nHave a strong sense of ownership and bias toward action.\r\nCan drive projects independently, with high accountability without much outside input.\r\nCommunicate clearly in writing and in person, and choose the right medium for the message.\r\nAre adaptable and able to dive into unfamiliar systems, learn quickly, and make sound technical decisions.\r\nEnjoy collaborating with a small, ambitious team in a fast-paced environment.\r\nAre excited to work 5 days a week in our San Francisco HQ (or open to relocating here).\r\nWhy Join UsWork on some of the hardest problems in modern infrastructure.\r\nCollaborate with a small, high-bar team of engineers who care deeply about quality.\r\nBuild core technology that every Browserbase product depends on.\r\nJoin an ambitious startup where your impact will be felt immediately.","company":"Browserbase","rawCompany":"browserbase","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-09T08:32:20.723Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1211.00","title":"Computer Systems Analysts","slug":"computer-systems-analysts"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)","description":"Browserbase Core InfrastructureBrowserbase powers web browsing capabilities for AI agents and applications. 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