# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Paradigm](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/paradigm)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $300k – $400k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, Redis, Pub/Sub, Rpc, Postgres, S3, Temporal, Distributed Systems
**Posted:** 2026-06-04

> Senior engineer building distributed LLM agent infrastructure. Requires 7+ years experience designing and deploying production distributed services.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy distributed services in a production environment
- Act as primary individual contributor on medium to large projects
- Debug complex issues and serve as a technical resource for peers
- Work with parallelized agent systems handling 10^5+ concurrent agents

## Requirements
- 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Proven track record as primary contributor to multiple medium to large projects
- Experience designing and deploying distributed services in production
- Strong ability to convey complex concepts and facilitate technical discussions

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Go, Redis, PubSub, RPC, Postgres, S3, Temporal

## Work Arrangement
- 5 days per week in-office in San Francisco

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