Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

About Hedra

Hedra is the platform, models, and infrastructure for visual intelligence.

We build the systems that make large-scale visual inference fast, reliable, and accessible to developers. Our work spans model serving, compute infrastructure, scheduling and routing, APIs, and the developer platform that sits on top of it.

We’re a small, highly technical team in San Francisco, backed by a16z and other leading investors. Engineers at Hedra work across boundaries, own systems end to end, and have significant influence over both what we build and how we build it.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer with deep experience building and operating distributed production systems.

You’ll work on the infrastructure underlying Hedra’s inference platform: systems that schedule and route compute, serve models efficiently, handle high-throughput workloads, and remain reliable as both traffic and the number of models we support grow.

The problems are often ambiguous and don’t have obvious answers. We’re looking for someone who can reason from first principles, identify bottlenecks and failure modes before they become problems, and make thoughtful tradeoffs across performance, reliability, complexity, and cost.