Remote Distributed Systems Engineer — Consensus Mastery

CYFR Technologies, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

CYFR Technologies, Inc. invites an experienced distributed systems engineer to design and implement scalable storage foundations.

The role focuses on consensus protocols, failure detection, and robust replication across regions, with emphasis on correctness, testability, and production resilience. You will lead engineering efforts in designing leader election, failover, and data placement strategies, while performing rigorous Jepsen-style testing and documenting architectural decisions for

Qualifications

• 6+ years of systems engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems theory—consensus (Raft, Paxos), CAP, CRDTs.
• Strong systems programming in Rust, Go, or C++.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed storage and consensus protocols.
• Build failure detection, leader election, and automatic failover systems.
• Optimize data placement and replication strategies across geographic regions.
• Write rigorous tests — Jepsen-style partition testing, fault injection, chaos engineering.
• Debug concurrency, ordering, and consistency issues in production.
• Author design documents and architecture decision records.

Skills

Distributed systems

Raft

Paxos

CRDTs

Rust

Go

C++

Jepsen testing

Chaos engineering

Tools

TLA+

Alloy

Job description

CYFR Technologies, Inc. invites an experienced distributed systems engineer to design and implement scalable storage foundations.

The role focuses on consensus protocols, failure detection, and robust replication across regions, with emphasis on correctness, testability, and production resilience. You will lead engineering efforts in designing leader election, failover, and data placement strategies, while performing rigorous Jepsen-style testing and documenting architectural decisions for