Remote Staff Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems Lead

Premier Global Links LLC; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work environment across U

Competitive equity package

Autonomy over technical projects

Job summary

Premier Global Links LLC is seeking a Staff-level Software Engineer to design and scale distributed backend systems for high-volume data synchronization. This hands-on role focuses on building reliable streaming pipelines, multi-region cloud infrastructure, and low-latency services.

You will own projects from architecture to deployment, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help raise observability and reliability across a remote-first environment across the United States and Canada.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including backend and distributed systems.
• Staff-level engineering capability demonstrated through technical ownership, system design, and high-impact contributions.
• Experience at a high-growth technology company or startup through significant growth stages.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
• Proven experience designing and scaling production systems handling large data volumes or high throughput.
• Experience building event-driven systems, data pipelines, or synchronization services using Kafka and messaging queues.
• Familiarity with SQL databases, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-based production environments.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale distributed backend systems for high-volume data synchronization.
• Improve data processing throughput, synchronization speed, system reliability, and performance.
• Develop event-driven and streaming architectures using Kafka and message queues.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks across distributed services, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Build systems capable of supporting growth in data volume, traffic, and customer demand.
• Contribute to multi-cloud and multi-region infrastructure, including data residency requirements.
• Design low-latency services and caching systems for real-time data access and personalization.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and customers to solve scalability challenges.
• Own technical projects from architecture through deployment and optimization.
• Establish engineering practices that improve observability, reliability, and maintainability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

System design

High-growth environment

Communication skills

Remote collaboration

Docker/Kubernetes

SQL databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL databases

Spark

Flink

Job description

Premier Global Links LLC is seeking a Staff-level Software Engineer to design and scale distributed backend systems for high-volume data synchronization. This hands-on role focuses on building reliable streaming pipelines, multi-region cloud infrastructure, and low-latency services.

You will own projects from architecture to deployment, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help raise observability and reliability across a remote-first environment across the United States and Canada.