Senior Distributed Systems Software Engineer

About the role

The Senior Distributed Systems Software Engineer will join a remote‑first engineering team to design and scale the distributed infrastructure that powers global, data‑intensive platforms. You will focus on building highly reliable backend services for real‑time data synchronization, streaming, and cloud‑native architectures, delivering direct impact to customers.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain scalable, fault‑tolerant backend services supporting real‑time synchronization and streaming workflows.
• Optimize system performance, including latency, throughput, reliability and operational efficiency.
• Drive architectural decisions for multi‑region deployments, disaster‑recovery strategies and global data residency.
• Build and improve cloud‑native infrastructure for high‑volume data processing and distributed applications.
• Own projects from requirements gathering through production delivery, including testing and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with engineering and product stakeholders to develop solutions aligned with user needs and business objectives.
• Analyze bottlenecks and implement improvements through experimentation, monitoring and performance tuning.
• Enhance platform automation, observability, incident response and operational reliability.
• Provide technical guidance to improve engineering practices and system architecture.

Required profile

• Proven experience building and operating high‑performance distributed systems at scale.
• Strong background in backend engineering, cloud infrastructure and large‑scale data platforms.
• Ability to work independently, communicate effectively and solve complex engineering challenges.
• Senior‑level expertise with a focus on reliability, scalability and performance.

Required skills