Distributed Systems Engineer C

Agivant Technologies; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Agivant Technologies in Hyderabad, India seeks a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable graph-data systems. You will drive low-latency data ingestion, indexing, and query pipelines while ensuring fault tolerance across the stack.

The role calls for building and operating our vector embedding infrastructure to enable fast nearest-neighbor search at scale, diagnosing complex incidents, and leading root-cause analyses to prevent recurrence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain distributed systems for graph data.
• Improve performance of data ingestion, indexing, and queries for low latency.
• Build and operate core vector embedding infrastructure for nearest neighbor search at scale.
• Lead root cause analysis and preventive measures for production incidents across the data stack.

Skills

Vector databases

Graph databases

Distributed systems

C++ programming

Kafka

Communication

AI-assisted coding

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Cypher

Kafka

ETCD

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems for graph data.


• Tackle performance and scalability challenges, optimizing data ingestion, indexing, and query pipelines for low-latency and high-throughput requirements. Conduct systematic profiling and tuning.


• Build, optimize, and operate our core vector embedding infrastructure to enable efficient nearest neighbor search at scale.


• Proactively diagnose, debug, and resolve complex issues across the entire data stack, from performance bottlenecks and data inconsistencies to system failures. Lead root cause analysis for production incidents and implement preventive measures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field


• 5 years of relevant experience

Skills And Knowledge

Deep, hands-on experience with one or more vector databases or similarity search libraries.

• Proven experience designing and working with any graph database and query languages like Cypher


• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: consensus, replication, sharding, and fault tolerance.


• Solid programming fundamentals; Expert-level proficiency in modern C++, with deep understanding of language features and object-oriented design.


• Understanding of distributed systems principles and the ability to evaluate trade-offs in system design.


• Familiar with Kafka, ETCD or similar technologies;


• Proactive and collaborative team player with strong communication skills.


• Open to adopting AI-assisted engineering practices (\"vibe coding\") to improve productivity and code quality.