Distributed Systems Engineer - Platform

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement solutions in our queueing layer, state store, and execution layer (e.g., concurrency over time, function debounce)
• Plan and implement improvements on throughput and latency at hundreds of thousands to millions of requests per second
• Contribute to systems architecture and infrastructure changes as we grow
• Collaborate with team members to expose internal data across metrics stores, APIs, and customer dashboards
• Work with backend engineers to design APIs for Inngest cloud dashboard, dev server, and CLIs
• Dogfood the Inngest product and develop ideas for improvements, features, or integrations
• Communicate with users through Github, email, and Discord
• Write technical specs for features and documentation for users

Requirements

• Experience working on distributed systems for several years
• Professional experience with Go or similar statically typed languages for two years or more
• Architected or designed systems that handle scale
• Understand engineering trade-offs and make correct judgement calls
• Understand how to observe, monitor, and maintain systems
• Appreciate simplicity in design and build

Nice-to-Haves

• Work with compliance (SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA)
• Experience or understanding of networking
• Experience managing and maintaining systems (e.g., SRE roles)

Tech Stack

• Backend: Go, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, PubSub/Kafka, Kubernetes
• APIs: gRPC (internal), GraphQL, REST
• Hosted on: AWS, GCP, Bare Metal
• Tools: Github, Linear, Slack, Notion, Figma