Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core
- Location
- San Francisco, CA (Remote) · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Lead / Staff
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Listed
- 23 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- distributed systems
- C++
- Rust
- concurrency
- fault tolerance
- distributed scheduling
Also useful
- Spark
- Kafka
- open-source contribution
Stated benefits & perks
- Health
- Dental
- Vision
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible pto
What You'll Do
- Own a major technical area of Ray Core end to end, defining the roadmap, identifying the most important technical problems, and driving execution through production.
- Lead large, technically complex projects spanning multiple engineers, teams, and/or organizations.
- Set technical direction and make architectural decisions for distributed computing infrastructure used by demanding production workloads.
- Design, build, and evolve core distributed-systems primitives rather than simply integrating existing platforms or frameworks.
- Work on problems involving areas such as distributed execution, scheduling, resource management, fault tolerance, concurrency, networking, storage, or system performance.
- Stay hands-on with implementation and debugging in a systems-oriented codebase, while raising the technical bar for the engineers around you.
- Help shape the longer-term architecture and evolution of Ray Core as our workloads and scale continue to grow.
What We're Looking for
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of increasing technical ownership.
- Experience leading substantial projects end to end, including defining the problem, creating a roadmap, making architectural decisions, driving implementation, and owning the outcome in production.
- Experience leading projects that are larger than a single-engineer effort, typically spanning multiple engineers and lasting multiple quarters.
- Deep experience with distributed systems and computer systems.
- Strong systems programming experience in languages such as C++, Rust, Java, or similar lower-level languages.
- Strong understanding of systems concepts such as multithreading/concurrency, distributed coordination, resource management, fault tolerance, performance, or networking.
- Experience building foundational systems such as databases, streaming systems, distributed runtimes, operating systems, schedulers, storage systems, Spark, Kafka, or similar infrastructure is highly relevant.
- A track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of the teams around you.
- Nice to have: Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects.
About Anyscale
We’re commercializing Ray a popular open-source project that's creating an ecosystem of libraries for scalable machine learning. Companies like OpenAI Uber Spotify Instacart Cruise and many more, have Ray in their tech stacks to accelerate the progress of AI applications out into the real world.
With Anyscale, we’re building the best place to run Ray, so that any developer or data scientist can scale an ML application from their laptop to the cluster without needing to be a distributed systems expert.
Proud to be backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition with $250+ million raised to date.
Why Anyscale
- We're on a mission to make scalable computing effortless. Ray is the AI Compute Engine at the center of some of the world's most powerful AI platforms
- Our tech is in production at companies like OpenAI, Uber, Spotify, Instacart, and Cruise
- We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition, with $250M+ raised to date
- Recent partnerships with Azure, CoreWeave, and Google Cloud are putting AI-native compute directly into enterprise environments
- Competitive salary and equity, plus health/dental/vision coverage (many plans up to 99% employer-covered)
- We offer flexible time off, paid parental leave, and mental health support
Equal opportunity and legal notices
Anyscale Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates are evaluated without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.
From Anyscale's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
How Rolev.ai helps with this application
Rolev.ai is a job search and application tool for US job seekers. For this Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core role at Anyscale, it shows how your resume fits, tailors your resume to the posting, and prepares the application for you to review.
See how you fit
Openings from employer career sites are ranked against your whole resume—and searchable inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor via Rolev.ai MCP.
Tailor without inventing
Every change to your resume is checked against your original. New experience goes in only with your yes—zero fabricated claims.
Draft the full kit
Tailored and Full Match resumes, role-specific cover letters, and answers to employer screening questions are prepared in seconds.
1-Click Extension Autofill
The Chrome extension fills the employer's Greenhouse, Workday, Lever, or Ashby form in 1 click. You review it and press Submit.
Similar roles
All Software Developer jobs- Software DeveloperAccenture Federal Services · Washington, DC · $97.5k – $115k/yr
- Software Developer 803Freedom Technology Solutions Group · Annapolis Junction, MD · $150k – $200k/yr
- Software DeveloperPurvis Systems · Newport, RI
- NASA Human Spaceflight Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software Engineer and Data ScientistCACI · Houston, TX
- Senior Manager Software EngineeringNasdaq · Atlanta, GA
- Software Engineering Supervisor - Test SystemsMoog · Torrance, CA
Common questions
Where is the Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core job at Anyscale located?
Yes, this Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core opening at Anyscale is listed as San Francisco, CA (Remote) (On-site). Always check Anyscale's application page for specific state eligibility or relocation policies.
What qualifications are required for Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core at Anyscale?
For the Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core role, Anyscale highlights 6+ years of relevant experience; experience with distributed systems, C++, Rust, concurrency, fault tolerance, distributed scheduling. Rolev.ai can score your existing resume against these requirements and show any skill gaps before you apply.
How do I apply for the Staff Software Engineer, Ray Core position at Anyscale?
This listing links directly to Anyscale's Ashby application page. You can apply directly on Anyscale's site, or use Rolev.ai to check your resume fit, generate a zero-hallucination tailored resume and cover letter for this posting, and autofill the Ashby application form in 1 click with the Rolev.ai Chrome extension. You always review the form and press Submit yourself.