Lead Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems & Rust

EPAM Systems, Inc.; México; A distancia; MXN 900.000 - 1.500.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off and sick leave

LinkedIn Learning access

Upskilling and certification courses

Global career opportunities

Descripción de la vacante

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Lead Backend/Distributed Systems Engineer to design and operate high-performance, scalable services. You will lead design work, implement core Rust components, and ensure reliability through troubleshooting and on-call support, collaborating across global time zones.

The role requires 5+ years in backend Rust, distributed systems experience, and strong leadership. Expect gRPC/Thrift RPC, cloud-native patterns, and occasional early/late overlap meetings with global

Formación

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with Rust.
• Leadership to guide technical decisions and mentor engineers.
• Experience designing or operating distributed storage systems or components.
• Advanced concurrent programming with async, multithreading and concurrency patterns.
• Strong RPC experience using gRPC or Apache Thrift for service-to-service communication.
• Cloud-native architecture with service discovery (e.g., Consul or ZooKeeper).
• English proficiency level B2 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 interfaces using gRPC or Thrift.
• Develop concurrent/asynchronous execution models for reliability and throughput.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive root-cause resolution.
• Provide on-call support and improve operational readiness with runbooks and diagnostics.
• Coordinate with global teams and support overlap meetings.

Conocimientos

Rust

Distributed systems

Leadership

Async programming

gRPC

Thrift

Go

Python

Linux

System design

Herramientas

Go Language

Python

Linux

System design

gRPC

Descripción del empleo

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Lead Backend/Distributed Systems Engineer to design and operate high-performance, scalable services. You will lead design work, implement core Rust components, and ensure reliability through troubleshooting and on-call support, collaborating across global time zones.

The role requires 5+ years in backend Rust, distributed systems experience, and strong leadership. Expect gRPC/Thrift RPC, cloud-native patterns, and occasional early/late overlap meetings with global