Backend Engineer: Data Pipelines & Distributed Systems

Premier Global Links LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Comprehensive benefits package

Ownership within growing tech org

High-impact AI data infrastructure

Job summary

Premier Global Links LLC is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and operate high-volume data processing systems transforming sensitive enterprise data into AI-ready datasets.

This role suits engineers owning production backend systems and tackling asynchronous processing, distributed systems, data pipelines, reliability, and large-scale workloads. You will collaborate across ML, security, and product teams in a fast-paced environment with visible ownership.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale multi-stage, high-volume data processing pipelines.
• Develop backend systems that process and transform sensitive enterprise data.
• Own backend services throughout design, development, deployment, debugging, and maintenance.
• Design reliable asynchronous workflows using queues, workers, concurrency, and batch processing.
• Implement safe handling of retries, checkpoints, partial failures, backfills, rollbacks, and recovery.
• Build systems that detect data quality issues, duplicated outputs, stale data, and silent failures.
• Develop internal tools and dashboards to monitor pipeline performance and data quality.
• Maintain reliable data provenance and support operational decision-making.
• Work with object storage and cloud-based processing infrastructure.
• Collaborate with ML, full-stack, platform, and security engineers to support new data types and product capabilities.
• Improve system scalability, reliability, observability, and operational efficiency.

Skills

Production backend systems

Distributed systems

Asynchronous processing

Data pipelines

Python

Go

Rust

Java

Backend API design

Ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Batch processing frameworks

Data orchestration tools

Job description

Premier Global Links LLC is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and operate high-volume data processing systems transforming sensitive enterprise data into AI-ready datasets.

This role suits engineers owning production backend systems and tackling asynchronous processing, distributed systems, data pipelines, reliability, and large-scale workloads. You will collaborate across ML, security, and product teams in a fast-paced environment with visible ownership.