Lead Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems (Rust)

EPAM Systems; Argentina; Presencial; ARS 135.892.000 - 226.487.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Healthcare benefits

Learning & development

Paid time off

Global teams

Descripción de la vacante

EPAM Systems seeks a Lead Backend/Distributed Systems Engineer to design and operate high-performance services that integrate with distributed storage systems. You will lead design and implementation, improve reliability through on-call support, and collaborate across global time zones.

You will build Rust components, guide architecture for storage features, and coordinate with dispersed teams while adopting cloud-native capabilities and RPC frameworks.

Formación

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with Rust.
• Strong leadership to guide technical decisions and mentor engineers.
• Proven project experience designing or operating distributed storage systems or components.
• Advanced concurrent programming with async, multithreading, and concurrency patterns.
• Strong RPC systems experience using gRPC or Apache Thrift for service-to-service communication.
• Cloud-native architecture experience with service discovery tools such as Consul or ZooKeeper.
• English proficiency level B2 (Upper-Intermediate) for daily collaboration and documentation.

Responsabilidades

• Design scalable, high-availability backend services that interact with distributed storage systems.
• Build high-performance Rust components and core service functionality.
• Lead system design for distributed storage features including consistency, sharding, replication, and fault tolerance.
• Implement RPC-based service interfaces using gRPC or Apache Thrift.
• Develop concurrent and asynchronous execution models for reliability and throughput.
• Troubleshoot production issues, debug complex failures, and drive root-cause resolution.
• Provide on-call support and improve operational readiness through runbooks and diagnostics.
• Coordinate with global teams and support occasional early morning or late evening overlap meetings.
• Integrate cloud-native capabilities such as service discovery, service mesh, and IPv6 where required.

Conocimientos

Rust

Leadership

Distributed systems

Async programming

gRPC/Thrift

Cloud-native

English B2

Herramientas

Go

Python

Linux

Descripción del empleo

EPAM Systems seeks a Lead Backend/Distributed Systems Engineer to design and operate high-performance services that integrate with distributed storage systems. You will lead design and implementation, improve reliability through on-call support, and collaborate across global time zones.

You will build Rust components, guide architecture for storage features, and coordinate with dispersed teams while adopting cloud-native capabilities and RPC frameworks.