Backend Engineer, Distributed Systems & Orchestration

Remote Dev Jobs; Power (MT); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Remote Dev Jobs is seeking a distributed systems engineer to design and build resilient, scalable architectures for member and operational workflows. The role emphasizes correctness through careful handling of retries, duplicates, partial failures, and stateful coordination.

You will work on experimentation infra, integrations, and live data flows, communicating clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders to keep systems accurate and efficient.

Qualifications

• Strong systems and API design fundamentals.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems with correctness requirements.
• Comfort with idempotency, ordering, state machines, reconciliation, observability, and failure recovery.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed systems with correctness guarantees, including retries and reconciliation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, observable APIs and workflows.

Skills

Distributed Systems

API Design

Idempotency

State Machines

Data Ordering

Reconciliation

Observability

Failure Recovery

Workflow Orchestration

Experimentation Infrastructure

Job description

Remote Dev Jobs is seeking a distributed systems engineer to design and build resilient, scalable architectures for member and operational workflows. The role emphasizes correctness through careful handling of retries, duplicates, partial failures, and stateful coordination.

You will work on experimentation infra, integrations, and live data flows, communicating clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders to keep systems accurate and efficient.