Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core)
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True Talent Solutions PartnersDistributed Systems
Fully remote within the United States.Full-TimeStaff
Salary$180,000 to $320,000 USD annually
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5 or more years
- Required Skills
- DockerSQLKafkaKubernetesRESTful APIsDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 5 or more years of backend engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems at high-growth companies.
- Staff-level or equivalent seniority, with a track record of rapid progression at growth-stage companies.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems design, large-scale architecture, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience building event collection or data streaming services using tools such as Kafka, message queues, SQL databases, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Proven ownership of backend systems scaled through multiple orders of magnitude of growth.
- Strong CS fundamentals, ideally from a rigorous computer science program or equivalent demonstrated depth.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working with both engineers and customers.
- Background at a high-velocity startup between Series A and Series D is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver complex backend infrastructure projects end to end, from design through production.
- Analyze and optimize every stage of the data syncing pipeline to improve throughput and reduce latency.
- Architect and build streaming sync capabilities to complement existing batch processing, supporting sources such as webhooks and queues.
- Identify and resolve current and future scalability bottlenecks, designing systems to handle the next order of magnitude of growth.
- Contribute to a low-latency caching layer that enables real-time personalization on top of data warehouses, targeting sub-30ms p90 response times at millions of QPS.
- Extend multi-region and multi-cloud backend infrastructure to support new regions and data residency requirements.
- Work directly with customers to diagnose and solve their hardest scaling challenges.
- Influence team and company roadmap through strong product thinking and engagement with product specifications.
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