Senior Distributed Systems Engineer / Architect
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RapidFort, Inc.Cybersecurity
Remote / HybridFull-TimeSenior
Salary170,000 - 200,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PythonBashAlgorithmsLinuxDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Strong experience building distributed systems or large-scale backend infrastructure
- Deep understanding of systems performance (CPU, memory, disk I/O, networking)
- Experience optimizing workloads for throughput and efficiency
- Strong Python development skills
- Strong Bash / shell scripting
- Ability to implement and reason about algorithms and system-level logic
- Experience with parallel processing, distributed job execution, or large data pipelines
- Familiarity with Linux systems, resource scheduling, and performance tuning
- Understanding of networked systems and distributed coordination
- Strong data-driven mindset with focus on measurement and experimentation
- Experience building observability, metrics, and instrumentation
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable distributed systems that handle heavy CPU, disk, and network workloads.
- Architect systems for high throughput, reliability, and efficient resource utilization.
- Develop distributed algorithms and data processing pipelines.
- Analyze system behavior to identify bottlenecks across compute, storage, and network layers.
- Implement system components and tooling primarily in Python and Bash.
- Build custom orchestration, automation, and distributed job execution mechanisms.
- Build instrumentation, metrics, and telemetry to measure system performance.
- Develop dashboards and analysis workflows to guide optimization decisions.
- Design systems that operate reliably across distributed environments.
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