Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core)

True; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Unknown Company is seeking a senior backend engineer to join the core engineering team building and scaling distributed systems for a data activation platform. You will improve systems moving large volumes of customer data with emphasis on performance, reliability, and multi-region infrastructure.

You will own projects end-to-end, design real-time and streaming data pipelines, and work directly with customers on scaling challenges.

Qualifications

• Seven-plus years of software engineering experience in distributed systems/backend.
• Experience building complex backend systems and scaling through growth.
• Experience with event collection or data streaming services, queues, Kafka, SQL databases, Kubernetes, Docker.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and optimize end-to-end data syncing pipelines for speed.
• Design real-time and streaming data systems with webhooks and queues.
• Identify bottlenecks and architect scalable, reliable solutions.
• Build and improve low-latency caching for real-time personalization.
• Develop and operate multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure with data residency.
• Own projects from design to delivery and collaborate with customers on scaling challenges.

Skills

Distributed systems expertise

Backend engineering

Communication skills

Tools

Kafka

SQL databases

Kubernetes

Docker

Spark

Flink

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join the core engineering team building and scaling distributed systems for a data activation platform. You will improve the systems that move large volumes of customer data, working across performance, reliability, and multi-region infrastructure.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Analyze and optimize the end-to-end syncing pipeline to move customer data more quickly.
• Design systems that support real-time and streaming data sources, including webhooks and queues.
• Identify scaling and reliability bottlenecks, then architect solutions for significant growth.
• Build and improve low-latency caching services for real-time personalization use cases.
• Develop and operate multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure, including support for data residency needs.
• Own projects from design through delivery and work directly with customers on complex scaling challenges.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• At least 7 years of software engineering experience, with deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems and backend engineering.
• Experience building complex, business-critical backend systems and scaling them through substantial growth.
• Background creating event collection or data streaming services, and experience with message queues, Kafka, SQL databases, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Strong systems design fundamentals and familiarity with infrastructure-level technologies such as Spark, Flink, or Kafka.
• Experience building scalable data sync systems that process and move large data volumes is valuable.
• Strong communication skills, sound technical judgment, and an ability to learn quickly.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary range: $180,000 to $320,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

LOCATION

Remote, United States.