Job Url: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=4358203062&f_AL=true&f_TPR=r86400&f_WT=2&keywords=software%20engineer&origin=JOB_SEARCH_PAGE_JOB_FILTER Job Description: Senior Software Engineer Realm · United States (Remote) Easy Apply Save Save Senior Software Engineer at Realm Show more options Your profile is missing required qualifications Show match details Help me update my profile BETA Is this information helpful? Meet the hiring team Kiera Helsey 3rd Building World-Class Software Engineering Teams 🪐 Job poster Message About the job Senior Backend Engineer (Rust) - Distributed Systems (US Remote) Stealth | Series A | Physical AI infrastructure About the Company We’re an agency partnering exclusively with a stealth, Series A AI company backed by leading Silicon Valley deep tech investors. The team is building a foundation model and platform for the physical world, enabling real-time AI systems that understand and interact with physical environments through multimodal data. Headquartered in the US, with a distributed team across the US and Europe. The Opportunity This is a high-impact role for a Senior Backend Engineer (Rust) to design and scale distributed systems supporting high-throughput, low-latency AI inference and real-time data services. You’ll work closely with ML, infrastructure, and product teams to bring cutting-edge research into reliable production systems. What You’ll Be Responsible For Architecting and building distributed backend services supporting real-time inference and data processing Optimizing systems for latency, throughput, resilience, and cost across cloud and GPU-backed infrastructure Building strong observability and performance tooling (metrics, tracing, logging) Partnering with ML/research teams to productionize experimental systems Owning services end-to-end — from design and implementation through deployment and iteration Minimum Qualifications (Required) 6+ years professional software engineering experience (backend / distributed systems) 2+ years of commercial Rust experience (mandatory) Strong distributed systems fundamentals (fault tolerance, concurrency, replication, networking) Experience operating production systems in cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure) Strong debugging, instrumentation, and performance optimization skills Preferred Qualifications Experience scaling systems through rapid growth or major architectural changes Systems programming background (Rust/C++), plus Python for tooling Exposure to ML infrastructure (model serving, GPU clusters, PyTorch/CUDA) Experience building internal tooling/platforms to accelerate development Why This Role Stands Out Series A + stealth: still early with real momentum Own foundational infrastructure at the intersection of distributed systems + real-world AI Work with an exceptionally technical team pushing boundaries in production systems Location: US Remote Compensation: Competitive salary + equity Seniority: Senior / Staff-level scope