Backend Engineer III — Scalable Distributed Systems

CALAMP WIRELESS NETWORKS CORPORATION; Carlsbad (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CalAmp in Carlsbad, CA is seeking a Software Engineer III for backend systems to design and operate distributed services that process high-volume real-time data from hundreds of thousands of connected devices.

You will own features end-to-end, tackle concurrency, scale, and reliability challenges, and collaborate with product and business teams to turn requirements into robust technical designs. The role offers a hybrid schedule.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of professional backend software engineering experience in production environments.
• Strong CS fundamentals: object-oriented design, algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis
• Deep proficiency in Java, including experience with RESTful and event-driven microservices
• Hands-on experience designing and operating distributed, scalable services in production
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, and with AWS core services (EC2/Lambda, S3, messaging)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Demonstrated experience debugging and supporting live production systems (monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis)
• Strong written and verbal communication - you can explain tradeoffs to both engineers and non-engineers

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that are reliable, observable, and built to scale
• Own features end-to-end: from design discussions through deployment and post-launch monitoring
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in distributed, production systems - including on-call/incident response rotations
• Identify performance bottlenecks and drive measurable improvements in latency, throughput, and reliability
• Shape technical decisions through architecture reviews and code reviews with architects and senior engineers
• Partner directly with product and business teams to turn requirements into technical designs
• Help evolve our engineering practices - tooling, observability, CI/CD - as we modernize our stack

Skills

Backend engineering

Java proficiency

Distributed systems

SQL/NoSQL

AWS core services

Kubernetes

System debugging

Communication skills

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Kinesis

Docker

Helm

Serverless

MongoDB

Bitbucket Pipelines

Job description

CalAmp in Carlsbad, CA is seeking a Software Engineer III for backend systems to design and operate distributed services that process high-volume real-time data from hundreds of thousands of connected devices.

You will own features end-to-end, tackle concurrency, scale, and reliability challenges, and collaborate with product and business teams to turn requirements into robust technical designs. The role offers a hybrid schedule.