Hybrid Backend Engineer III — Scalable, Real-Time Systems

CalAmp; Carlsbad (CA); Hybrid; USD 79,135 - 135,661; Full time

Job summary

CalAmp in Carlsbad, CA is seeking a Software Engineer III for backend systems. You will design, build, and operate distributed services that process high-volume data from connected devices, not just CRUD APIs.

You will own features end-to-end—from design discussions through deployment—while scaling services, improving latency, and supporting live production systems. This role blends concurrency, reliability, and real-time data challenges in a hybrid environment.

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

Java

RESTful

Microservices

Distributed systems

SQL

NoSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

On-call/incident response

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Helm

Serverless

Job description

CalAmp in Carlsbad, CA is seeking a Software Engineer III for backend systems. You will design, build, and operate distributed services that process high-volume data from connected devices, not just CRUD APIs.

You will own features end-to-end—from design discussions through deployment—while scaling services, improving latency, and supporting live production systems. This role blends concurrency, reliability, and real-time data challenges in a hybrid environment.