Durable Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer

Matcha; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Restate is building a low-latency, durable execution runtime in Rust and seeks a Backend / Distributed Systems Engineer to help evolve that infrastructure for real-world production systems. You’ll design, build, and operate core backend components spanning distributed execution, state management, storage, messaging, and fault tolerance at scale.

You’ll work closely with engineers using Restate in production, translating challenges into product improvements while shaping engineering culture and

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience building production systems.
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, concurrency, state, messaging, and failure handling.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production software at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core backend and distributed systems components.
• Work on problems involving durable execution, state management, messaging, storage, concurrency, and fault tolerance.
• Build systems that are low‑latency, highly reliable, and capable of operating at significant scale.
• Improve the performance, scalability, and resilience of the Restate runtime.
• Contribute to the architecture and evolution of Restate's core platform.
• Design systems that operate reliably in real‑world production environments.
• Diagnose and solve complex distributed systems and production issues.
• Improve observability, testing, failure handling, and operational reliability.
• Work across the boundary between application code and infrastructure when needed.
• Partner with engineering teams building production systems with Restate.
• Understand real‑world technical challenges and translate them into product improvements.
• Build reference implementations, integrations, and tooling where useful.
• Bring feedback from production users directly into engineering and product decisions.
• Turn recurring technical challenges into reusable systems, tooling, and documentation.
• Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and architecture decisions.
• Help define engineering practices as the team and product scale.
• You enjoy solving difficult technical problems and digging deep into how systems work.
• You care about correctness, performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• You communicate technical ideas clearly through design docs, architecture discussions, and code.
• You have high ownership and thrive in an early-stage environment.
• You naturally look for ways to turn one‑off solutions into reusable systems.
• You're comfortable working directly with other engineers to understand and solve real‑world technical problems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Rust/Go/Java/C++

Production systems

Observability

Tools

Rust

Go

Java

C++

Job description

Restate is building a low-latency, durable execution runtime in Rust and seeks a Backend / Distributed Systems Engineer to help evolve that infrastructure for real-world production systems. You’ll design, build, and operate core backend components spanning distributed execution, state management, storage, messaging, and fault tolerance at scale.

You’ll work closely with engineers using Restate in production, translating challenges into product improvements while shaping engineering culture and