Top Systems Engineer Jobs in NYC, NY

Develop platform software using container runtimes and Kubernetes to enable GPU-accelerated applications. Design systems software for container orchestration, cloud-native environments, and distributed systems. Integrate software across NVIDIA engineering teams while addressing performance, security, reliability, and evolving priorities. The role involves Rust and Go development, Linux system internals, container sandboxing, confidential computing, virtualization, and GPU resource management.

Develop and evaluate embedded systems, firmware, kernel, device driver, RTOS, and hardware engineering tasks for generative AI model development. Create reference solutions, benchmarks, and evaluation rubrics; assess AI-generated technical outputs for correctness, performance, reliability, safety, and feasibility. Collaborate with AI research and engineering teams to identify knowledge gaps and improve model performance.

Architects and operates enterprise endpoint platforms across Windows and macOS, including device provisioning, application delivery, patching, compliance, security, automation, and lifecycle management. The role leads complex technical projects, resolves escalated endpoint issues, partners with security and support teams, evaluates technologies, improves employee experience, documents systems, and mentors engineers.

Provide internal and customer-facing managed infrastructure support, including monitoring, incident response, systems administration, network troubleshooting, Azure and virtualization administration, escalation management, documentation, and change activities. Resolve incidents within SLA targets, participate in root cause analysis, maintain infrastructure records, and use PowerShell automation to improve operations. The role also serves as a technical escalation point and mentors junior engineers.

Design and implement scalable synchronization features for a cross-platform desktop application. Build and review code, write tests, maintain infrastructure, optimize performance across macOS and Windows, collaborate with cross-functional teams, troubleshoot issues, establish best practices, and mentor junior engineers. The role works primarily remotely with periodic in-office attendance.

Own Baseten’s internal identity and authentication infrastructure, including Okta architecture, SSO, MFA, lifecycle management, and application integrations. Build automated joiner, mover, and leaver workflows across HRIS, Google Workspace, MDM, and SaaS systems using scripting and APIs. Implement access controls, device trust, compliance processes, documentation, and audit evidence. Serve as a technical escalation point for IT Support and partner with Security on least-privilege access and SOC 2 requirements.

Provides Level 2 technical support, network and systems implementation, troubleshooting, client escalation management, documentation, and project engineering for small and midsize business clients. Configures and supports Apple, Windows, cloud, networking, security, backup, and remote-management technologies. Maintains tickets, reports, technical documentation, certifications, service-level performance, and customer satisfaction while participating in on-call and onsite support as needed.

Designs, integrates, and maintains scalable cloud-based systems and services. Responsibilities include cloud architecture, systems integration, verification and validation, requirements analysis, monitoring distributed systems and virtual machines, performance optimization, and resolving functionality, configuration, and integration issues.

Designs, implements, administers, and supports critical Linux infrastructure and high-transaction systems. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, root-cause remediation, security and compliance, infrastructure design, automation, monitoring, virtualization, application platform support, documentation, incident response, and technical leadership. The role also mentors engineers and collaborates with security, networking, storage, application, vendor, and customer teams.

Build and maintain backend services for payments, subscriptions, billing, and revenue workflows. Develop APIs, integrations, webhooks, asynchronous processes, database models, and event-driven AWS services. Ensure transactional accuracy through validation, retries, idempotency, testing, monitoring, and reconciliation. Investigate production billing issues, collaborate with product, finance, and operations teams, document workflows, and own features through deployment. Use TypeScript, Node.js, SQL, and AI-assisted development tools in a hands-on engineering environment.

Design, build, and maintain backend systems for payments, subscriptions, billing, and revenue workflows. Develop APIs, integrations, event-driven processing, database models, reconciliation tools, access controls, testing, monitoring, and reliability safeguards. Own complex initiatives from architecture through production, investigate incidents, collaborate with finance and product teams, and provide technical guidance while using AI-assisted development tools responsibly.

Build and operate core components of Elasticsearch’s distributed Serverless offering. Improve concurrent indexing, cluster coordination, data allocation, scalability, performance, and resilience across large distributed systems. Investigate and resolve complex concurrency, stability, and performance issues end to end, while collaborating across teams and supporting engineers with difficult technical problems.

Designs, builds, and operates core distributed systems for Serverless Elasticsearch. Responsibilities include improving concurrent indexing, cluster coordination, scalability, resilience, and performance across nodes and petabytes of data. The role investigates complex concurrency and stability issues, supports support engineers, owns operational resolutions, and leads projects across multiple engineers and teams.

Develop and govern scalable NetSuite customizations and integrations using SuiteScript, automated testing, and AI-assisted development. Partner with Finance, Supply Chain, Logistics, and business users to translate requirements into durable solutions. Establish coding, testing, documentation, configuration, change-management, and AI-use standards while supporting integrations with Workato, billing platforms, payment processors, 3PL partners, and enterprise APIs.

Designs, deploys, maintains, and optimizes enterprise VMware virtualization infrastructure. Automates provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance, and lifecycle management using Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and scripting. Troubleshoots complex infrastructure issues; collaborates with storage, network, security, and cloud teams; supports capacity planning, disaster recovery, high availability, documentation, and infrastructure initiatives. The role operates in a 24/7 environment and may require varied shifts.

Modernize legacy SAS data-processing systems by translating logic into scalable, high-performance Python solutions. Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines using formats including SAS, Parquet, JSON, and SQL. Integrate PostgreSQL, implement parallel processing, automated testing, data validation, and quality assurance, and maintain well-documented code. Collaborate with IT specialists and stakeholders to validate requirements, troubleshoot issues, and deliver cloud-native modernization solutions.

Design and implement embedded hardware and firmware for a small-scale AS/RS robotics system: select microcontrollers and sensors, write and optimize firmware, create schematics and PCB layouts, perform system-level and HIL testing, collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, and maintain design documentation through product lifecycle.

Temporary hardware systems engineer supporting one or two client projects. Responsibilities include complex PCB layout in Altium, circuit and embedded systems design, microcontroller and sensor integration, electronics DFMA, consumer appliance development, manual board assembly and rework, regulatory-compliant design, and Git-based collaboration. The role is onsite in Brooklyn at least four days per week and may transition to full-time employment.

Support NVIDIA enterprise customers using GPU-accelerated platforms, triage hardware and AI/ML workload issues, collaborate with engineering teams, and drive cases through resolution. Develop support tools and products using AI, document customer interactions, and troubleshoot Linux-based multi-GPU systems, firmware, kernels, drivers, containers, and distributed workloads. The role also requires customer communication, technical analysis, and occasional weekend or holiday support.

Provide technical support to NVIDIA Enterprise customers by triaging and resolving issues, working with engineering on reproductions/logs, applying AI/ML and agentic AI to build support tools and products, documenting interactions and knowledge, and owning cases to resolution (occasional weekend/holiday support).

Lead the architecture, development, customization, and integration of NetSuite finance systems supporting accounting, Order-to-Cash, and Record-to-Report processes. Partner with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Audit, and Data Engineering teams to implement controls, improve close processes, enhance reporting, ensure SOX and GAAP compliance, and manage integrations. Establish NetSuite engineering standards, mentor engineers, oversee data governance, and provide technical leadership for scalable finance technology solutions.

Own Anthropic’s endpoint platform, including MDM infrastructure, macOS and mobile configuration as code, patching, zero-touch provisioning, telemetry, compliance controls, and automation. Operate the platform as a production service with observability, incident response, progressive rollouts, and rollback. Partner with Security, developer, and infrastructure teams on endpoint hardening and trusted-device access. Support Linux systems, document platform operations, and provide advanced escalation support.

Own the reliability, availability, performance, observability, and security of Ophelia’s GCP telehealth platform. Define SLOs, improve monitoring and incident response, expand Terraform infrastructure, strengthen CI/CD, manage disaster recovery, and address latency and Cloud Run performance. Lead on-call maturity, HIPAA/SOC 2 infrastructure controls, and reliability education for engineers. Use AI-assisted tools for automation and incident triage while partnering with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Own the architecture and evolution of Backblaze’s observability platform across multiple data centers. Lead metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes deployments, Ceph monitoring, and network observability. Establish technical standards, capacity strategies, documentation, and operational practices while mentoring engineers and partnering across SRE, storage, network, security, and application teams. Evaluate AIOps and agentic AI solutions to improve incident detection, correlation, and response.

Administer and enhance Okta identity systems, including SSO, MFA, lifecycle management, RBAC, and Zero Trust capabilities. Automate onboarding, offboarding, and access governance using Okta Workflows, APIs, and scripting. Manage SaaS platform integrations, participate in incident response and on-call support, document technical standards and runbooks, and contribute to enterprise systems roadmaps while collaborating with InfoSec, HRIS, and business teams.