Senior Staff Engineer, Open Source Server
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Based in the United StatesFull-TimeStaff
Salary$260,000 – $325,000
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Job Details
- Experience
- 12+ years of experience
- Required Skills
- AWSPostgreSQLElasticSearchGCPJavaMySQLAzureCassandraGoDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience building and operating large-scale production distributed systems.
- Strong technical leadership experience, including driving architecture decisions and leading complex engineering initiatives.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems concepts such as concurrency, scheduling, fault tolerance, and performance engineering.
- Strong programming experience in Go, Java, or similar backend-oriented languages.
- Experience with high-scale systems such as orchestration engines, task queues, streaming systems, or similar infrastructure platforms.
- Proven ability to design APIs, platform primitives, or systems used by other engineers or developers.
- Strong operational mindset with experience in observability, debugging, reliability engineering, and production incident handling.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and data systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch is a plus.
- Experience contributing to or working within open source ecosystems is highly valued.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate in a globally distributed engineering environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of major server-side features, from early architecture and proposal through implementation and production rollout.
- Define and influence technical direction across core areas such as workflow execution, task scheduling, matching, visibility, and system scalability.
- Solve complex distributed systems problems involving concurrency, fault tolerance, performance optimization, and reliability at scale.
- Partner with cross-functional teams including engineering, product, and customer-facing groups to translate requirements into clear technical solutions.
- Improve operational excellence through better observability, alerting, testing strategies, documentation, and incident response practices.
- Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and help raise the overall technical bar across the team.
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