Principal Engineer, Distributed Systems & End-to-End Infra

S27a; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

CaseGuild in Seattle is seeking an engineer to own, operate, and improve a major vertical of our distributed infrastructure. You will design systems that handle millions of queries, process terabytes of data, and scale under real-world workloads on shared infrastructure.

This is an end-to-end ownership role: you will write production code, diagnose performance and reliability issues, manage deployments, observability, and incident response, and set patterns others can follow.

Qualifications

• Built and operated high-volume, low-latency services on shared infrastructure.
• Experience with distributed systems and multi-tenant workloads.
• Strong focus on reliability, observability, and scalable deployment patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own, operate, and improve a major vertical of CaseGuild’s distributed infrastructure.
• Write production code, diagnose performance issues, and implement reliability improvements.
• Manage deployment configurations, observability, and incident response for your systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Multi-tenancy

Admission control

Tail-latency management

Reliability & recovery

Production automation

Job description

CaseGuild in Seattle is seeking an engineer to own, operate, and improve a major vertical of our distributed infrastructure. You will design systems that handle millions of queries, process terabytes of data, and scale under real-world workloads on shared infrastructure.

This is an end-to-end ownership role: you will write production code, diagnose performance and reliability issues, manage deployments, observability, and incident response, and set patterns others can follow.