Senior Distributed Systems Architect (Remote Contract)

Alpheva; United States; Remote; USD 220,000 - 331,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpheva is seeking a senior distributed-systems engineer for remote, project-based work. The role requires deep expertise in concurrency, databases, messaging, and reliability engineering, with staff-level or principal leadership experience.

Work is remote and contract-based, with hours and scope aligned to project matching. The listed hourly range applies to matched engagements (no upfront fixed hours). Payouts are handled per project terms and will be clarified before scale-up.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building production backend or distributed systems.
• Expertise in concurrency, databases, messaging, consensus tradeoffs, and reliability engineering.
• Staff, principal, architect, or equivalent technical-leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Review distributed-system designs for consistency, concurrency, fault tolerance, and operability.
• Analyze service boundaries, state management, messaging guarantees, and database behavior.
• Identify race conditions, bottlenecks, ambiguous invariants, unsafe retry behavior, and tradeoffs hidden by simplified explanations.
• Provide reference architectures and code-review feedback reflecting senior engineering judgment.

Skills

Concurrency

Databases

Messaging

Reliability

Technical leadership

Job description

Alpheva is seeking a senior distributed-systems engineer for remote, project-based work. The role requires deep expertise in concurrency, databases, messaging, and reliability engineering, with staff-level or principal leadership experience.

Work is remote and contract-based, with hours and scope aligned to project matching. The listed hourly range applies to matched engagements (no upfront fixed hours). Payouts are handled per project terms and will be clarified before scale-up.