Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core)
True Talent Solutions Partners · United States · remote
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join the core engineering team building and scaling backend systems that move customer data across a global infrastructure. You will tackle distributed systems challenges involving performance, reliability, streaming, and multi-region support.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Analyze and optimize the syncing pipeline to move large volumes of data more quickly.
- Develop real-time syncing capabilities and support streaming sources such as webhooks and queues.
- Identify scalability and reliability bottlenecks, then design systems for significant growth.
- Build and improve low-latency caching systems for real-time personalization workloads.
- Extend multi-region and multi-cloud infrastructure to support global data residency needs.
- Own projects end to end and work directly with customers on challenging scaling problems.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience, with strong hands-on depth in distributed systems and backend engineering.
- Experience building and scaling complex, business-critical backend systems through substantial growth.
- Background creating event collection or data streaming services, including experience with message queues, Kafka, SQL databases, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Understanding of infrastructure-level systems and tools such as Spark, Flink, and Kafka.
- Experience building data sync systems that process and move large volumes of data is valuable.
- Strong systems design fundamentals, communication skills, and ability to learn quickly.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and a primary background in backend systems rather than data engineering or DevOps.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $180,000 to $320,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
LOCATION
Remote, United States.