Role: Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core).
Employment Type: Full-time.
Work Arrangement: Remote.
Location: United States or Canada.
Compensation: 180,000–320,000 USD annually, plus competitive equity.
Visa Sponsorship: Open to visa transfers.
Hiring Count: Multiple openings.
About the Role:
- You will work on the systems that power the company’s data-syncing engine, which is relied upon by customers and internal engineering teams.
- This role is ideal for a strong backend engineer who has built complex distributed systems from the ground up and has experience scaling highly reliable infrastructure through significant growth.
- You will work on problems involving data processing, event-driven architectures, performance optimization, multi-cloud infrastructure, and multi-region systems.
- You will have significant ownership and autonomy, including the opportunity to deliver projects from conception through production and help customers solve complex scaling challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain highly scalable distributed systems and backend services.
- Develop and improve systems responsible for syncing large volumes of customer data.
- Optimize data-processing performance, reliability, throughput, and latency.
- Design systems that support batch and real-time data synchronization.
- Build and scale event collection, streaming, and messaging services.
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks as systems grow by multiple orders of magnitude.
- Contribute to multi-cloud and multi-region backend infrastructure.
- Support systems that serve a global customer base and meet data-residency requirements.
- Work closely with customers and internal engineering teams to solve challenging scaling problems.
- Own projects end-to-end, from system design and technical planning through implementation and delivery.
- Make sound technical decisions in an environment involving complex and ambiguous engineering challenges.
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong background in backend engineering and distributed systems.
- Excellent understanding of system design fundamentals and large-scale distributed architectures.
- Experience building complex backend systems from scratch rather than only integrating pre-built components.
- Experience designing or developing event-collection or data-streaming systems used in business-critical environments.
- Hands-on experience with technologies such as message queues, event-driven systems, Apache Kafka or similar streaming platforms, SQL and other database technologies, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Proven experience owning systems that have undergone significant growth and scaling them successfully.
- Strong programming and software architecture skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Ability to learn quickly, work independently, and take ownership of ambiguous problems.
- Demonstrated career progression and increasing levels of responsibility.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building data-syncing engines that process terabytes of data per day.
- Experience with real-time data systems, webhooks, queues, or streaming sources.
- Experience working close to the infrastructure layer.
- Strong understanding of how technologies such as Kafka, Spark, or Flink work internally.
- Experience with multi-region and multi-cloud architectures.
- Experience working at a high-growth technology company or startup.
- Experience building systems during periods of rapid company and product growth.
- Background in high-talent-density engineering environments.
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field from a strong technical program.
