Staff Middleware Engineer & Distributed Systems Architect

United States Digital Space LLC; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in Hong Kong is seeking a senior middleware architect to design and optimize microservice governance, RPC frameworks, and data middlewares. You will lead architecture decisions for high availability, scalability, and security, while aligning with business requirements.

The role requires deep expertise in Spring Cloud, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, and distributed systems; you will mentor teams, evaluate new technologies, and drive best practices across the middleware stack.

Qualifications

• Over 6 years of software development experience, with at least 4 years of middleware or distributed system architecture design, and successful large-scale projects.
• Proficient in microservice architecture design and implementation, familiar with RPC frameworks such as Spring Cloud and Dubbo, and messaging middlewares like Kafka and RabbitMQ.
• Deep understanding of NoSQL databases such as Redis and MongoDB, as well as relational databases like MySQL.
• Familiar with Elastic Search.
• Experience with configuration centers such as Nacos and Apollo, and with Kong API Gateway and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of distributed coordination services such as etcd and Zookeeper, and exposure to ServiceMesh, Sidecar, and eBPF.
• Top-level design capabilities for complex systems, able to independently complete the entire process from requirement analysis to technical solution design.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for overall architecture design and optimization of microservice governance frameworks (e.g., SpringCloud), RPC frameworks, MQ messaging middlewares (e.g., Kafka), and data middlewares (MySQL, Redis, Elastic Search).
• Conduct in-depth research and select appropriate technical solutions to ensure high availability, scalability, and security of the system.
• Proficient in microservices frameworks such as Spring Boot and Spring Cloud, responsible for customized development and performance tuning.
• Understand RPC communication mechanisms and message queues, optimize transmission efficiency and data consistency in distributed systems.
• Design efficient data storage solutions aligned with business requirements, optimize data access performance and cost.
• Oversee deployment, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and incident response of middleware systems to improve stability.
• Keep abreast of industry trends, introduce new technologies and promote team capabilities.

Skills

Microservice design

RPC frameworks

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

MongoDB

MySQL

ElasticSearch

Nacos

Apollo

Kubernetes

Kong API Gateway

Zookeeper

etcd

ServiceMesh

Sidecar

eBPF

Spring Cloud

Spring Boot

Dubbo

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Spring Cloud

Dubbo

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

MongoDB

MySQL

ElasticSearch

Nacos

Apollo

Kubernetes

Kong API Gateway

Zookeeper

etcd

ServiceMesh

Sidecar

eBPF

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC in Hong Kong is seeking a senior middleware architect to design and optimize microservice governance, RPC frameworks, and data middlewares. You will lead architecture decisions for high availability, scalability, and security, while aligning with business requirements.

The role requires deep expertise in Spring Cloud, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, and distributed systems; you will mentor teams, evaluate new technologies, and drive best practices across the middleware stack.