Distributed Systems Architect: Bare-Metal and High-Scale

About the job

Analog builds industrial intelligence infrastructure for the physical world: high-throughput data pipelines, real-time analytics, and edge-to-cloud connectivity for clients who can't depend on the cloud. Think regulated environments, air-gapped sites, physically demanding settings where there's no AWS console to fall back on when something breaks.

That's where you come in. Most distributed systems engineers have only ever worked on top of a managed cloud service. This role is different: you'll design the actual infrastructure underneath, the clustering, replication, and failover that keeps messaging, streaming, and databases alive when a client's hardware is sitting in a locked room with no internet connection. Your architecture is what stands between a client and data loss at petabyte scale.

What we're looking for, and why

We need someone who's built the thing other engineers just rent. Not someone who's deployed a managed Kafka instance, someone who's clustered it themselves, rack by rack, and knows exactly what happens when a node drops mid-write. Analog's clients don't get to call AWS support, so the person designing their infrastructure has to have already lived through the failure modes that cloud providers hide from everyone else.