Senior Backend Engineer — Distributed Systems (Rust)

EPAM Systems; Mexico; On-site; PHP 7,524,000 - 11,285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off and sick leave

Upskilling and certification courses

LinkedIn Learning library access

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Senior Backend/Distributed Systems Engineer to design and operate high-performance services that integrate with distributed storage at scale. You will craft resilient architectures, tackle production challenges, and collaborate across time zones to deliver reliable systems.

The role emphasizes Rust development, async/concurrency patterns, and RPC interfaces (gRPC/Thrift) in a cloud-native environment. Strong English (B2) and cross-team coordination are essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Rust backend engineering experience.
• Experience with C/C++, understanding of complex low-level systems.
• Strong distributed storage systems experience building, designing, or operating storage components.
• Strong concurrent programming skills with async patterns and multithreading.
• Strong RPC services experience using gRPC or Apache Thrift.
• Strong cloud-native architecture experience with service discovery and service mesh concepts.
• Strong data structures and algorithms knowledge for system-level problem solving.
• Solid system design skills for scalable, distributed, high-availability backends.
• Proven troubleshooting skills for debugging production issues.
• Clear communication skills to collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable backend services that integrate with multiple storage systems.
• Build high-performance distributed components with a focus on reliability and correctness.
• Develop and maintain Rust services across the full lifecycle from design to production.
• Implement concurrency models using async programming and multithreading patterns.
• Create and evolve RPC-based interfaces using gRPC or Apache Thrift.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, debug complex failures, and restore service quickly.
• Provide on-call support and improve operational readiness through runbooks and automation.
• Apply system design and distributed systems principles to consistency, replication, and sharding trade-offs.
• Collaborate across global teams and align on interfaces, SLAs, and rollout plans.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

C/C++

gRPC/Thrift

Async programming

Multithreading

Cloud-native

English (B2)

Tools

Go

Python

Java

Linux

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking a Senior Backend/Distributed Systems Engineer to design and operate high-performance services that integrate with distributed storage at scale. You will craft resilient architectures, tackle production challenges, and collaborate across time zones to deliver reliable systems.

The role emphasizes Rust development, async/concurrency patterns, and RPC interfaces (gRPC/Thrift) in a cloud-native environment. Strong English (B2) and cross-team coordination are essential.