Backend Solutions Architect
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Bright Vision TechnologiesDistributed systems
100% Remote (U.S.)Full-TimeSenior
Salary100,000 - 150,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSSQLJavaKafkaAzureGoScalaDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Six or more years of professional backend engineering experience, with significant time on distributed systems.
- Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, replication, and CAP trade-offs.
- Hands-on experience with high-throughput message systems such as Kafka.
- Experience operating systems at scale, including capacity planning and performance tuning.
- Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and NoSQL data stores.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and mentorship skills.
- Preferred: production experience with Kubernetes-based platforms and exposure to Istio or Linkerd service meshes.
- Preferred: familiarity with chaos engineering practices and tools, or contributions to relevant open-source distributed systems projects.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement large-scale distributed backend systems using Java, Go, Scala, or similar high-performance languages.
- Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies for workload requirements.
- Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with observability, idempotency, and graceful degradation.
- Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost using profiling, benchmarking, and load testing.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and trade-off analyses.
- Design and operate relational, key-value, document, and search data stores at scale.
- Drive incident response and post-incident learning for critical backend services.
- Mentor engineers and partner with SRE and platform teams to improve reliability and reduce operational toil.
- Contribute to long-term architecture and platform strategy and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
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