Senior Backend Engineer, Distributed Systems (Rust)

EPAM Systems, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off and sick leave

Unlimited LinkedIn Learning access

Global career opportunities

Volunteer and community involvement

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend/Distributed Systems Engineer to design and operate high‑performance services that integrate with distributed storage systems at scale.

You will design resilient architectures, solve complex production issues, and collaborate across global time zones to deliver reliable systems. Responsibilities include building scalable backend services, implementing async concurrency, and developing Rust services end-to-end.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Rust backend engineering experience
• Experience with C/C++, understanding of complex low-level systems
• Strong distributed storage systems experience building, designing, or operating storage components
• Strong concurrent programming skills with async patterns and multithreading
• Strong RPC services experience using gRPC or Apache Thrift
• Strong cloud-native architecture experience with service discovery and service mesh concepts
• Strong data structures and algorithms knowledge for system-level problem solving
• Solid system design skills for scalable, distributed, high-availability backends
• Proven troubleshooting skills for debugging production issues
• Flexible collaboration availability for occasional early/late meetings across global time zones
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2)
• Clear communication skills to collaborate effectively across teams
• Nice to have Go Language, Python, Java, Linux

Responsibilities

• Design scalable backend services that integrate with multiple storage systems
• Build high-performance distributed components with a focus on reliability and correctness
• Develop and maintain Rust services across the full lifecycle from design to production
• Implement concurrency models using async programming and multithreading patterns
• Create and evolve RPC-based interfaces using gRPC or Apache Thrift
• Troubleshoot production incidents, debug complex failures, and restore service quickly
• Provide on-call support and improve operational readiness through runbooks and automation
• Apply system design and distributed systems principles to consistency, replication, and sharding trade-offs
• Collaborate across global teams and align on interfaces, SLAs, and rollout plans

Skills

Rust

C/C++

Distributed systems

Asynchronous programming

Multithreading

gRPC

Apache Thrift

Cloud-native architecture

Service mesh

Go

Python

Java

Tools

gRPC

Apache Thrift

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend/Distributed Systems Engineer to design and operate high‑performance services that integrate with distributed storage systems at scale.

You will design resilient architectures, solve complex production issues, and collaborate across global time zones to deliver reliable systems. Responsibilities include building scalable backend services, implementing async concurrency, and developing Rust services end-to-end.