Lead Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer (Rust)

EPAM Systems; Mexico; On-site; PHP 6,270,000 - 9,404,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Employee financial programs

Paid time off and sick leave

Upskilling and certification courses

LinkedIn Learning access

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead Backend/Distributed Systems Engineer to design and operate high-performance, scalable services that integrate with distributed storage systems. You will lead design, implement Rust components, and collaborate across global time zones.

You will guide technical decisions, mentor engineers, and own concurrency, RPC interfaces, and cloud-native integrations. Occasional early/late overlaps and international projects await.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with Rust.
• Strong leadership skills to guide technical decisions and mentor engineers.
• Proven project experience designing or operating distributed storage systems or components.
• Advanced concurrent programming expertise 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Rust

Leadership

Distributed storage

Async programming

RPC systems

Cloud-native

English B2

Tools

Go

Python

Linux

gRPC

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead Backend/Distributed Systems Engineer to design and operate high-performance, scalable services that integrate with distributed storage systems. You will lead design, implement Rust components, and collaborate across global time zones.

You will guide technical decisions, mentor engineers, and own concurrency, RPC interfaces, and cloud-native integrations. Occasional early/late overlaps and international projects await.