Senior Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems & Reliability

Durlston Partners LLP; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 260,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-free compensation

Medical & life insurance for family

Discretionary annual bonus

Job summary

Confidential private investment firm in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate a highly concurrent, large-scale distributed backend system. The role focuses on architecture, scale, and reliability deep in the systems layer.

You will work with Kafka, Redis, and other distributed architectures, solving latency and throughput challenges in production. A strong background in Linux, networking, and multi-threading is required.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering large-scale distributed backend systems.
• Proficiency in at least one core language (Python/Java/Go/C++).
• Strong knowledge of concurrency, partitioning, replication, and fault tolerance.
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging systems; Redis caching.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend systems handling high volumes of concurrent traffic
• Own performance optimisation, scalability, and reliability across production systems
• Debug and troubleshoot complex issues in high-throughput production environments
• Work across networking, Linux, and core operating systems fundamentals as part of day to day engineering
• Work with technologies such as Kafka, Redis, and other distributed backend architectures

Skills

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Asynchronous processing

Python

Java

Go

C++

Kafka

Redis

Linux fundamentals

Networking

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Linux

Job description

Confidential private investment firm in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate a highly concurrent, large-scale distributed backend system. The role focuses on architecture, scale, and reliability deep in the systems layer.

You will work with Kafka, Redis, and other distributed architectures, solving latency and throughput challenges in production. A strong background in Linux, networking, and multi-threading is required.