Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems Lead

Bright Vision Technologies; Schaumburg (IL); Remoto; USD 100.000 - 112.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput backend services for distributed systems. This remote role focuses on scalability, reliability, and performance across cloud platforms and enterprise workloads.

You will work on core platform architectures, mentor engineers, and navigate trade-offs between consistency, availability, and latency to deliver robust solutions.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Six or more years of professional backend engineering experience, with significant time on distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, replication, and CAP trade-offs.
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput message systems such as Kafka.
• Experience operating systems at scale, including capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with both relational and NoSQL data stores.
• Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and mentorship skills.

Mansioni

• Design, build, and operate large-scale, high-throughput backend services powering mission-critical workloads.
• Architect core platforms used by other engineering teams with focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Balance trade-offs between consistency, availability, and latency while shipping pragmatic solutions.

Conoscenze

Distributed systems

Java/Go/Scala

CAP trade-offs

SQL

Debugging

Formazione

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Strumenti

Kafka

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Istio/Linkerd

Descrizione del lavoro

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput backend services for distributed systems. This remote role focuses on scalability, reliability, and performance across cloud platforms and enterprise workloads.

You will work on core platform architectures, mentor engineers, and navigate trade-offs between consistency, availability, and latency to deliver robust solutions.