Backend Engineer III – Scalable Distributed Systems

CalAmp; Carlsbad (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CalAmp, a leader in connected intelligence for real-time asset tracking, seeks a Software Engineer III to design and operate distributed backend services. You will own features end-to-end, solving scale, concurrency, and reliability challenges beyond CRUD. Collaboration with product teams and on-call rotations are part of the role.

The position is based in Carlsbad, CA with a hybrid schedule. We value strong CS fundamentals, Java mastery, and hands-on experience with cloud, containers, and

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of 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

Java

RESTful services

Distributed systems

SQL & NoSQL

Kubernetes

On-call / incident response

Communication

Tools

AWS

Docker

Bitbucket Pipelines

Job description

CalAmp, a leader in connected intelligence for real-time asset tracking, seeks a Software Engineer III to design and operate distributed backend services. You will own features end-to-end, solving scale, concurrency, and reliability challenges beyond CRUD. Collaboration with product teams and on-call rotations are part of the role.

The position is based in Carlsbad, CA with a hybrid schedule. We value strong CS fundamentals, Java mastery, and hands-on experience with cloud, containers, and