Remote Distributed Systems Engineer — Real-Time Infra & Scale

Nubeero Limited; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Dental and Vision

Retirement plan

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Figma is seeking a Software Engineer for Distributed Systems to help design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure powering real-time collaboration for millions of users. You will work on storage, streaming, and compute orchestration, while improving developer tooling and internal APIs.

You’ll join a team that champions reliability, security, and performance, with opportunities to mentor others and influence platform strategy across the organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, specifically in backend or infrastructure engineering.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts such as sharding, replication, consistency, and eventual convergence.
• Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration.
• Proficiency in languages such as Go, TypeScript, Python, Rust, or Ruby.
• Strong system design skills and a track record of architecting resilient production systems.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience collaborating across teams and mentoring others.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure systems that support product innovation and user collaboration at scale.
• Architect and evolve distributed systems including storage platforms, streaming infrastructure, and compute orchestration.
• Improve developer experience by building internal platforms, CI/CD systems, build tools, and APIs.
• Collaborate across product and infrastructure teams to design secure, maintainable, and performant systems.
• Participate in shaping platform strategy, roadmaps, and engineering best practices across the organization.
• Debug and resolve complex production issues that span services and layers of the stack.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and technical excellence.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Go

TypeScript

Python

Rust

Ruby

Cloud-native environments

Container orchestration

System design

Mentoring

CI/CD

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

Figma is seeking a Software Engineer for Distributed Systems to help design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure powering real-time collaboration for millions of users. You will work on storage, streaming, and compute orchestration, while improving developer tooling and internal APIs.

You’ll join a team that champions reliability, security, and performance, with opportunities to mentor others and influence platform strategy across the organization.