Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Platform Engineering

RTB House; United States; Remote; USD 62,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Office in Warsaw or Kraków

B2B contract

Job summary

RTB House, a global marketing tech company, is seeking engineers for the Platform Engineering team to lead deployment, monitoring, databases, or load balancing initiatives. You will guide a 3–4 person team and collaborate with cross-functional units to deliver highly reliable, scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes system-level ownership, proactive requirement definition, and the ability to communicate across teams in English and Polish.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of complex IT systems from hardware to software.
• Ability to define requirements that balance technical and business needs.
• Experience in leading design and implementation of solutions.
• Experience in leading project teams.
• Willingness to engage beyond coding, including cross-team communication.
• Proactive, independent, and able to take initiative.
• Extensive programming experience and code review involvement.
• Knowledge of concurrent programming and distributed systems.
• Ability to analyze performance and optimize production systems.
• Proficiency in English and Polish (C1).

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead development within deployment, monitoring, databases, or load balancing.
• Coordinate a project team of 3–4 people and align with other RTB House teams.
• Ensure reliability and scalability of implemented solutions.

Skills

System architecture

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Performance analysis

English and Polish (C1)

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

AIO/BigQuery/MinIO stack

Job description

Location: [Poland]

We Are:

RTB House is a global company that provides state-of-the-art marketing technologies for top brands and agencies worldwide. Its proprietary ad-buying engine is the first in the world to be powered entirely by Deep Learning algorithms, enabling advertisers to generate outstanding results and reach their goals at every stage of the funnel.

Our Platform Engineering team, within the Bidding Platform structure, is looking for engineers with a strong interest in system-related topics (deployment, monitoring, databases, load balancing), as well as experience in leading the specification and development of complex projects and coordinating the work of others.
If you want to work on technically challenging and sophisticated solutions, this is the opportunity for you!

You Will:

• Plan and then hands-on lead further development within a given technical area like deployment, monitoring, databases or load balancing, in the context of existinginfrastructure within RTB House;
• Coordinate the work of a project team of 3-4 people, also making arrangements with other teams and units within RTB House;
• Ensure the reliability and scalability of the solutions built.

Desired Experience:

• Excellent understanding of how complex IT systems work - from the hardware level, through software, to algorithms;
• Ability to proactively define requirements, ask appropriate questions and draw conclusions that will combine technical constraints and business needs;
• Ability to lead the design and implementation of a solution;
• Experience in leading project teams;
• Willingness to be involved in topics that go beyond programming and design, such as responsibility for technical areas or communication with other teams;
• Proactive attitude, independence in taking action;
• Extensive experience in programming and readiness to implement key system elements as well as involvement in code reviews;
• Good knowledge of methods of creating concurrent programs and distributed systems;
• Ability to critically analyze created solutions in terms of performance (from estimating the theoretical performance of designed systems to detecting and removing actual performance problems in production);
• C1 level in English and Polish.

Selected technologies used:

• Java, Python
• Kubernetes, Prometheus
• Aerospike, Memcached
• Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, MinIO
• Kafka, Clickhouse
• PostgreSQL
• Elasticsearch
• Jenkins, Graphite

We Offer:

• Projects focused on extreme performance and high code quality - clean code and solid code reviews are our standard.
• Collaboration within an interdisciplinary, self-sufficient team (including DevOps, database experts, backend developers, product designers, and QA engineers).
• Access to modern technologies and the opportunity to apply them in large-scale, high-impact projects.
• Cooperation based on B2B contract.
• You can cooperate 100 % remotely or choose one of our office spaces in Warsaw or Cracow.