Senior Backend Engineer - Scale-out Systems & Performance

Michael Page; Dubai; On-site; AED 550,000 - 950,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Page is seeking an experienced backend engineer to architect and build highly scalable distributed systems in a production environment. You will own end-to-end systems—from design through production support—while driving performance optimisations across the stack and exploring AI-enabled solutions for complex challenges.

The role requires deep expertise in distributed architecture, concurrency, partitioning, and system reliability, with the ability to learn rapidly and apply new

Qualifications

• Extensive backend engineering experience building highly scalable, distributed systems in production environments.
• Proven experience operating services handling 20,000-30,000+ requests per second and large-scale user traffic.
• Deep expertise in system design, distributed architecture, concurrency, partitioning, consistency models, and performance engineering.
• Strong technical curiosity with the ability to rapidly learn new technologies, domains, and AI capabilities independently.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build large-scale distributed systems capable of supporting millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per second.
• Design event-driven architectures, partitioning strategies, and highly scalable data platforms with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance.
• Lead performance optimisation initiatives across application, infrastructure, storage, networking, and caching layers.
• Own systems end-to-end, from architecture and development through production operations and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-driven capabilities, to solve complex engineering and business challenges.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

System design

Concurrency

Partitioning

Performance engineering

AI capabilities

Tools

Event-driven architectures

Job description

Michael Page is seeking an experienced backend engineer to architect and build highly scalable distributed systems in a production environment. You will own end-to-end systems—from design through production support—while driving performance optimisations across the stack and exploring AI-enabled solutions for complex challenges.

The role requires deep expertise in distributed architecture, concurrency, partitioning, and system reliability, with the ability to learn rapidly and apply new