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Distributed Systems Software Engineer

Senior engineer building WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform on object storage. Design, develop, and operate scalable backend services and distributed systems across AWS, GCP, and Azure; own projects end-to-end including storage engine, control plane, transactions, and multi-region clusters.

197k – 271k/yr
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What You Will Do

  • Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.
  • Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. Play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services.
  • Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization.
  • Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers.

What You Will Bring

  • 5+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation.
  • Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc.
  • Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for distributed systems and storage systems.
  • Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills.
  • Experience in driving operational excellence for large production services.
  • A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success.

What Gives You an Edge

  • Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, high quality systems.
  • Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems.
  • On-call experience handling critical systems.

Skills

Distributed SystemsBackend SystemsJavaGoC++PythonMicroservicesContainersvirtualizationstorage systemsAWSGCPAzure

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