Senior Distributed Transaction Specialist

Zero Energy Contracting; Abu Dhabi; Remote; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Career development

Collaborative engineering

Competitive salary

Job summary

Zero Energy Contracting in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Senior Distributed Transaction Specialist to design and optimize distributed transaction systems across enterprise applications. You will drive consistency, concurrency control, and fault-tolerant architectures in a fully remote setup.

You will implement 2PC, Saga patterns, monitor performance, and collaborate with engineering, database, and platform teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 5–8 years in distributed systems or backend engineering.
• Experience with 2PC, Saga patterns, and eventual consistency.
• Proficient in Java, C#, or Go and cloud-native tech.
• Remote work ability and strong problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize distributed transaction workflows across microservices and enterprise systems.
• Implement transaction management strategies including 2PC and Saga patterns and eventual consistency.
• Diagnose failures, deadlocks, data inconsistencies, and distributed coordination issues.
• Optimize transaction throughput, latency, reliability, and resource utilization.
• Develop recovery, rollback, retry, and idempotency mechanisms to maintain data integrity.
• Collaborate with software engineering, database, and platform teams to improve system architecture.
• Monitor transaction performance and investigate production incidents using logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Establish technical standards and documentation for transaction processing, consistency, and fault recovery.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Problem solving

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Tools

Kafka

Relational databases

Cloud-native

Job description

Job Title: Senior Distributed Transaction Specialist

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Arrangement: 100% Remote — Work From Home

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Distributed Transaction Specialist to design, optimize, and troubleshoot distributed transaction systems across enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in transaction consistency, concurrency control, distributed systems, and fault-tolerant architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and optimize distributed transaction workflows across microservices and enterprise systems.
• Implement transaction management strategies, including two-phase commit (2PC), Saga patterns, and eventual consistency.
• Diagnose transaction failures, deadlocks, data inconsistencies, and distributed coordination issues.
• Optimize transaction throughput, latency, reliability, and resource utilization.
• Develop recovery, rollback, retry, and idempotency mechanisms to maintain data integrity.
• Collaborate with software engineering, database, and platform teams to improve system architecture.
• Monitor transaction performance and investigate production incidents using logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Establish technical standards and documentation for transaction processing, consistency, and fault recovery.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of experience in distributed systems, backend engineering, transaction processing, or database architecture.
• Strong knowledge of distributed transaction protocols, concurrency control, ACID properties, and consistency models.
• Experience with microservices, relational databases, message queues, and distributed application architectures.
• Proficiency in Java, C#, Go, or another backend programming language.
• Familiarity with Kafka, database transaction management, distributed tracing, and cloud-native technologies.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively in a fully remote environment.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary based on qualifications and experience.
• 100% remote work with no routine office attendance.
• Professional development and career advancement opportunities.
• Collaborative engineering environment with exposure to modern distributed technologies.

• Candidates should confirm applicable employment arrangements, residency requirements, and work authorization before accepting an offer.