Remote Backend Platform Engineer – High-Throughput Systems

Bright Vision Technologies; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 115,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies focuses on high-throughput platform development, designing, building, and operating foundational platforms and shared services that other engineering teams rely on. This role centers on backend platform capabilities—routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching, asynchronous jobs, and durable event processing—capable of handling very high traffic with predictable latency.

The ideal candidate combines deep distributed-systems expertise with strong

Qualifications

• Six or more years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
• Demonstrated track record building and operating internal platforms or shared services consumed by multiple engineering teams.
• Strong, hands-on expertise designing distributed systems with consistency, availability, latency, and failure‑mode behavior.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++.
• Deep understanding of high-throughput messaging, streaming, and event-driven architectures using Kafka, Pulsar, or NATS.
• Strong working knowledge of data storage systems across relational, key‑value, document, and search workloads.
• Proven experience leading multi‑quarter platform initiatives and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate foundational platforms and shared services used by multiple engineering teams.
• Develop backend platform capabilities—request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching layers, asynchronous job execution, and durable event processing.
• Focus on handling very high traffic volumes with predictable latency and low operational toil.
• Mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through code reviews and design reviews.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Technical communication

Mentoring

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

NATS

Relational databases

Key‑value stores

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies focuses on high-throughput platform development, designing, building, and operating foundational platforms and shared services that other engineering teams rely on. This role centers on backend platform capabilities—routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching, asynchronous jobs, and durable event processing—capable of handling very high traffic with predictable latency.

The ideal candidate combines deep distributed-systems expertise with strong