Staff Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems & Streaming

Premier Global Links LLC; New York (NY); Remote; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Equity package

High ownership over projects

Job summary

Premier Global Links LLC is seeking a Staff-level Software Engineer to join an innovative tech company building high-scale data integration and synchronization systems. This role centers on designing and scaling distributed backend systems that move large volumes of customer data reliably and efficiently, with streaming, performance optimization, and multi-region cloud infrastructure.

The ideal candidate is hands-on with strong distributed systems fundamentals and a track record of delivering

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Staff-level engineering capability with technical ownership and high-impact contributions.
• Experience at a high-growth technology company or startup.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
• Experience building event-driven data pipelines using Kafka and message queues.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale distributed backend systems for high-volume data synchronization.
• Improve data processing throughput, synchronization speed, system reliability, and performance.
• Develop event-driven and streaming architectures using Kafka and queues.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks across distributed services, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Own projects from architecture through deployment and optimization.
• Establish engineering practices that improve observability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and customers to solve scalability challenges.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

System design

Performance optimization

Strong communication

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Cloud platforms

SQL databases

Job description

Premier Global Links LLC is seeking a Staff-level Software Engineer to join an innovative tech company building high-scale data integration and synchronization systems. This role centers on designing and scaling distributed backend systems that move large volumes of customer data reliably and efficiently, with streaming, performance optimization, and multi-region cloud infrastructure.

The ideal candidate is hands-on with strong distributed systems fundamentals and a track record of delivering