Lead Distributed Systems Engineer — Real-Time Collaboration

Wizard, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Wizard is seeking a lead/second engineer to own Wizlink end-to-end, designing the sync and data model for .wiz project state and shipping cloud projects for team collaboration. You will work with cross-functional teams on Wizard Headless, the .wiz format, and WizReview.

Responsibilities include building a multiplayer-ready data model, enabling real-time collaboration, and ensuring reliability and recoverability.

Qualifications

• Shipping real-time sync or collaboration used daily.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, CRDTs or OT, and failure modes.
• Strong memory management, concurrency, data structures, and system design.

Responsibilities

• Design a multiplayer-ready data model for timelines, graphs, and media references.
• Ship Cloud Share: host, share, and open projects across a team.
• Turn on real-time multiplayer with CRDTs or better approaches.
• Build dynamic links between cloud projects and local media without blocking edits.
• Plan migration for moving single-player projects to multiplayer.
• Own reliability: observability, conflict handling, and recovery when network drops.

Skills

Multiplayer sync design

Distributed systems

CS fundamentals

C++/client

AI-assisted engineering

Job description

Wizard is seeking a lead/second engineer to own Wizlink end-to-end, designing the sync and data model for .wiz project state and shipping cloud projects for team collaboration. You will work with cross-functional teams on Wizard Headless, the .wiz format, and WizReview.

Responsibilities include building a multiplayer-ready data model, enabling real-time collaboration, and ensuring reliability and recoverability.