Distributed Systems Engineer

About Relace

Relace is building a globally distributed inference cloud. Customers send us requests, we run them on our own fleet of GPUs across the world, and we compete on price, speed and reliability against companies far larger than us. We have customers and revenue today, we’re venture backed, and the team is still small, so roles come with a lot of responsibility and room to grow.

We build our own stack, and the fleet runs on Kubernetes across multiple clouds. Performance here is the business: making the system ten percent faster makes the company roughly ten percent more money, and we can show you the number.

Some numbers: we process 800B+ tokens a day, we’ve grown 3x in the last three months, we are regularly one of the top providers by volume on OpenRouter, and we raised a $23M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Matrix Partners and Y Combinator.

The role

You would work on how the globally distributed inference runs: the routing layer deciding which machine handles a request, what happens when more work arrives than we have capacity for, and how the fleet grows and shrinks across clouds as demand moves. A lot of it is our own Rust service and the Kubernetes services that manage a multi-cloud fleet.

What we need