Systems Engineering Days

Where distributed systems meets practice

Portland, OR, April 14-16, 2025 • 9,276 registered from around the world

About Systems Engineering Days?

A flagship gathering for engineers building distributed platforms in at scale. Two days of technical talks, workshops, and hallway track with the community.

Deep dives into battle-tested engineering practices
Grow your connections and discover new opportunities
Interactive sessions diving into architecture decisions
Direction into where the industry is heading with distributed systems

Featured Sessions

Scaling Kubernetes to 10,000 Nodes

by Jordan Kim

How we grew our Kubernetes cluster to support billions of requests in production. Lessons learned we encountered.

Load Testing Your Distributed System

by Sam Garcia

Technical case study of our approach to securing our infrastructure in production.

API Gateway Design Patterns

by Jamie Johnson

Meet Our Speakers

Learn from industry leaders and hands-on engineers.

Devon Carter

Stripe

Blake Anderson

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Alex Patel

Grafana Labs

Alex Hayes

GitLab

See full speaker list →

Get Your Ticket

Tickets are selling fast. Early-bird pricing end on 2026-06-05.

Single Conference Pass

$299

Full conference access. Main stage and concurrent sessions. Networking events.

Pro Access

$799

Full conference access. technical workshops. Mentorship with speakers. Priority support.

Corporate Package

$3,499

Five conference passes. Dedicated table at all meals. Custom branding recognition. Group support.

Sponsors & Partners

Made possible by the innovative teams pushing the industry forward.