Remote: High-Performance Distributed Systems Engineer

RTB House; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

RTB House is expanding its Bidding Platform team to support a system handling tens of millions of requests per second with latency under 50 ms. You will design and implement modules, optimize performance, and ensure reliability and scalability in a demanding production environment.

You will explore new technologies, build monitoring tools, and collaborate in end-to-end delivery with DevOps, backend developers, product designers, and QA engineers.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of how complex IT systems work from hardware to software.
• Proficient in programming with experience in concurrent/distributed systems.
• Ability to observe, monitor and analyze production systems and derive actionable insights.
• Experience in performance analysis and optimizing systems for low latency and high availability.
• Knowledge of high scalability and high availability concepts.
• English and Polish at C1 level.

Responsibilities

• Design and program modules for a system handling over 24M queries per second with sub-50 ms latency.
• Optimize software performance and resource usage.
• Ensure reliability and scalability of production systems.
• Create tests for performance and correctness of new components.
• Evaluate new technologies for production suitability.
• Develop monitoring and analytics tools for the production system.
• Continuously optimize existing tools and processes.

Skills

Programming

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Monitoring production systems

Performance optimization

English & Polish

Education

Background in Computer Science

Tools

Java

Python

Aerospike

Memcached

Kafka

Clickhouse

Elasticsearch

Jenkins

Graphite

Job description

RTB House is expanding its Bidding Platform team to support a system handling tens of millions of requests per second with latency under 50 ms. You will design and implement modules, optimize performance, and ensure reliability and scalability in a demanding production environment.

You will explore new technologies, build monitoring tools, and collaborate in end-to-end delivery with DevOps, backend developers, product designers, and QA engineers.