Distributed Systems Engineer for Analytics DB Platform (Go)

careersday; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Comprehensive health benefits

Job summary

careersday is seeking an experienced backend data systems engineer to design, build, and operate distributed systems for high-volume data workloads. You will work primarily in Go, with opportunities to leverage Rust or C++ experience and to contribute across storage, processing, and delivery layers.

Responsibilities include improving data integrity, latency, and query performance, ensuring resilience through backpressure, retries, and replication, and participating in on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in backend, infrastructure, or distributed-data systems.
• Strong Go skills or proven Rust/C++ experience and ability to learn Go quickly.
• Experience operating production services: deployment, monitoring, incident response.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems: concurrency, fault tolerance, data integrity.
• Experience with high-throughput or low-latency data processing and observability (Prometheus/Grafana).
• Depth in either database systems and query performance, or data delivery via streams/APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate distributed systems for high-volume data workloads using Go.
• Improve data integrity, latency, query performance, availability, and efficiency.
• Make services resilient with backpressure, retries, idempotency, replication, and graceful degradation.
• Set service objectives, monitor production health, plan capacity, respond to incidents, and investigate bottlenecks.
• Operate analytical database clusters or build streaming pipelines, APIs, log delivery, and near real-time alerting.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams on data needs and evaluate technologies.

Skills

Go

Rust/C++

Production deployments

Distributed systems concepts

Prometheus/Grafana

High throughput / low latency

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux

Infrastructure-as-code

Kafka

Flink

GraphQL

Job description

careersday is seeking an experienced backend data systems engineer to design, build, and operate distributed systems for high-volume data workloads. You will work primarily in Go, with opportunities to leverage Rust or C++ experience and to contribute across storage, processing, and delivery layers.

Responsibilities include improving data integrity, latency, and query performance, ensuring resilience through backpressure, retries, and replication, and participating in on-call rotations.