Senior Backend Systems Engineer - Remote & Scalable

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and operate large-scale distributed backends powering mission-critical workloads. You will craft core platforms, balance consistency, availability, and latency, and drive scalable architecture across teams.

The role emphasizes building resilient services with strong observability, and guiding junior engineers while collaborating with SRE and platform teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Six or more years of professional backend engineering experience, with distributed systems focus.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale distributed backend systems using Java, Go, Scala, or similar high-performance languages.
• Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies for each workload.
• Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with observability and idempotency.
• Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost via profiling and load testing.
• Lead architecture reviews, design discussions, and trade-off analyses.
• Implement robust failure-handling patterns including retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and saga workflows.
• Design and operate data stores at scale (relational, key-value, document, search).
• Build observability with structured logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Drive incident response and post-incident learning for critical backends.
• Mentor mid-level engineers and champion code quality and reliability.
• Partner with SRE and platform teams to improve reliability and reduce toil.
• Contribute to multi-year architecture roadmaps and align with engineering strategy.
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation and runbooks.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Go

Scala

SQL

Cloud platforms

Kafka

Kubernetes

Debugging

Documentation

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

Istio

Linkerd

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and operate large-scale distributed backends powering mission-critical workloads. You will craft core platforms, balance consistency, availability, and latency, and drive scalable architecture across teams.

The role emphasizes building resilient services with strong observability, and guiding junior engineers while collaborating with SRE and platform teams.