Senior Backend Platform Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Server-Side Engineer to design, build, and operate foundational platforms and shared services used across engineering teams. The role focuses on backend platform capabilities, including request routing, caching layers, and durable event processing, with an emphasis on developer experience.

The ideal candidate has deep distributed-systems expertise, strong collaboration skills, and a proven track record of leading multi-quarter platform initiatives

Qualifications

• Six+ years of backend/platform engineering experience.
• Experience building internal platforms or shared services used by multiple teams.
• Strong design skills for distributed systems with focus on consistency, availability, latency, and failure modes.

Responsibilities

• Design and build internal platform services and shared infrastructure used by hundreds of engineers.
• Architect high-throughput, latency-sensitive backend platforms with predictable tail latency.
• Build durable event-processing pipelines and asynchronous job execution platforms.

Skills

backend engineering

distributed systems

Java/Go/Scala/Rust/C++

Kafka/Pulsar/NATS

high-throughput

observability/SLOs

mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Open-source platforms

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Server-Side Engineer to design, build, and operate foundational platforms and shared services used across engineering teams. The role focuses on backend platform capabilities, including request routing, caching layers, and durable event processing, with an emphasis on developer experience.

The ideal candidate has deep distributed-systems expertise, strong collaboration skills, and a proven track record of leading multi-quarter platform initiatives