Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems (India)

Onehouse; India; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity Compensation

Health & Well-being

Provident Fund

Remote-friendly

Unlimited PTO

17 paid holidays

Lunch stipend

Equipment stipend

Job summary

Onehouse is seeking a backend engineer to build scalable platform services and microservices in a distributed cloud environment. You will contribute to API design, data caching, and infra tooling while ensuring reliability and performance.

ideal candidates have 3+ years of backend experience, are proficient with Kubernetes, gRPC, Java, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and possess strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience in distributed systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes, gRPC and Java.
• Experience deploying applications on one or more cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Operational excellence in monitoring, deployment, testing of microservice architectures.
• Strong problem-solving and attention to detail.
• Clear communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to implement new APIs, database/cache abstractions and services to support user-facing products, external integrations or infra tooling.
• Exhibit full ownership of product features from concept to completion.
• Design for future scale and high availability, understanding common failure patterns and remediation.
• Maintain a high engineering bar around code, monitoring, operations, automated testing and release management.

Skills

Kubernetes

gRPC

Java

Microservices

AWS/GCP/Azure

Go

Firebase

SaaS product experience

Tools

Go

Firebase

Job description

About Onehouse

Onehouse is a mission-driven company dedicated to freeing data from data platform lock-in. We deliver the industry’s most interoperable data lakehouse through a cloud-native managed service built on Apache Hudi. Onehouse enables organizations to ingest data at scale with minute-level freshness, centrally store it, and make available to any downstream query engine and use case (from traditional analytics to real-time AI / ML).

We are a team of self-driven, inspired, and seasoned builders that have created large-scale data systems and globally distributed platforms that sit at the heart of some of the largest enterprises out there including Uber, Snowflake, AWS, Linkedin, Confluent and many more. Riding off a fresh $35M Series B backed by Craft, Greylock and Addition Ventures, we're now at $68M total funding and looking for rising talent to grow with us and become future leaders of the team. Come help us build the world's best fully managed and self-optimizing data lake platform!

The Community You Will Join

When you join Onehouse, you're joining a team of passionate professionals tackling the deeply technical challenges of building a 2-sided engineering product. Our engineering team serves as the bridge between the worlds of open source and enterprise: contributing directly to and growing Apache Hudi (already used at scale by global enterprises like Uber, Amazon, ByteDance etc) and concurrently defining a new industry category - the transactional data lake. The Cloud Infrastructure team is the glue that binds all of this together. We enable our data platform and infrastructure teams to be successful by acting as the foundation of a truly cloud native product.

The Impact You Will Drive

• As a backend engineer at Onehouse, you will get to build highly scalable and extremely reliable platform services, solving deep technical challenges across all of these areas. These distributed systems will be critical to supporting our multi region cloud microservices at scale.

A Typical Day

• Collaborate with the team to implement new APIs, database/caching abstractions and services, to support user-facing products, external partner integrations or infrastructure tooling/monitoring systems.
• Exhibit full ownership of product features, including design and implementation, from concept to completion.
• Be passionate about designing for future scale and high availability, while possessing a deep understanding of common failure patterns and their remediations.
• Uphold a high engineering bar around the code, monitoring, operations, automated testing, release management of the platform.

What You Bring to the Table

• 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer with experience developing and operating microservices in a distributed environment.
• Experience with Kubernetes, gRPC and Java.
• Experience deploying applications on one or more global cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Operational excellence in monitoring/deploying/testing microservice architectures.
• Great problem-solving skills, a keen eye for details
• Quick decision making, self-driven and able to balance to feature development and tech debt
• Clear communication skills

• Nice to haves (but not required):
• Experience with Go.
• Experience with Firebase or equivalent DB.
• Experience working on a SaaS product.

How We'll Take Care of You

• Equity Compensation; our success is your success with eligible participation in our company equity plan
• Health & Well-being; we'll invest in your physical and mental well-being by reimbursing up to 20,000 INR for your monthly insurance premium
• Financial Future; we'll invest in your financial well-being by making this role eligible for the provident fund of which Onehouse will contribute up to 1800 INR/month
• Location; we are a remote-friendly company (internationally distributed across N. America + India), though some roles will be subject to in-person requirements in alignment with the needs of the business
• Generous Time Off; unlimited PTO (mandatory 1 week/year minimum), uncapped sick days and 17 paid company holidays
• Food & Meal Allowance; weekly lunch stipend, in-office snacks/drinks
• Equipment; we'll provide you with the equipment you need to be successful and a one-time $500 (USD) stipend for your initial office/desk setup
• Child Bonding!; 26 weeks off for birthing and 12 weeks for surrogate and adoptive parents - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition

House Values

One Team

Optimize for the company, your team, self - in that order. We may fight long and hard in the trenches, take care of your co-workers with empathy. We give more than we take to build the one house, that everyone dreams of being part of.

Tough & Persevering

We are building our company in a very large, fast-growing but highly competitive space. Life will get tough sometimes. We take hardships in the stride, be positive, focus all energy on the path forward and develop a champion's mindset to overcome odds. Always day one!

Keep Making It Better Always

Rome was not built in a day; If we can get 1% better each day for one year, we'll end up thirty-seven times better. This means being organized, communicating promptly, taking even small tasks seriously, tracking all small ideas, and paying it forward.

Think Big, Act Fast

We have tremendous scope for innovation, but we will still be judged by impact over time. Big, bold ideas still need to be strategized against priorities, broken down, set in rapid motion, measure, refine, repeat. Great execution is what separates promising companies from proven unicorns.

Be Customer Obsessed

Everyone has the responsibility to drive towards the best experience for the customer, be an OSS user or a paid customer. If something is broken, own it, say something, do something; never ignore. Be the change that you want to see in the company.