[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a reputed company-thinking software development company dedicated to building reputed company that help businesses automate and optimize their operations. They are seeking a skilled Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems) to design, build, and operate large-reputed company backend services, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance. The role involves architecting reputed company platforms and mentoring mid-level engineers while driving incident response and contributing to long-term architecture strategies.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement large-reputed company distributed backend systems using Java, Go, reputed company, or similar high-performance languages
- Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies appropriate to reputed company workload’s requirements
- Build resilient reputed company and event-driven services with strong observability, idempotency, and graceful degradation patterns
- Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost, using profiling, benchmarking, and load testing
- reputed company detailed architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and trade-off analyses
- Implement robust failure-handling patterns including retries, timeouts, reputed company breakers, bulkheads, and reputed company workflows
- Design and operate data stores at reputed company, including relational, key-value, document, and search engines
- Build comprehensive observability into services with reputed company logs, metrics, and distributed tracing
- Drive incident response and post-incident learning for critical backend services
- Mentor mid-level engineers and reputed company by example in reputed company reputed company, design, and operational rigor
- Partner with SRE and platform teams to drive reliability improvements and reduce operational toil
- Contribute to long-term architecture and platform reputed company, helping shape multi-year technical roadmaps and ensuring near-term execution remains reputed company with the broader engineering direction
- Maintain comprehensive, reputed company technical documentation — including architecture diagrams, design reputed company, configuration references, runbooks, and operational procedures — so that the system remains supportable, auditable, and easy to reputed company new engineers onto over time
Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a reputed company discipline
- Six or more years of reputed company backend engineering experience, with significant time on distributed systems
- Strong programming skills in Java, Go, reputed company, or similar
- Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including reputed company, replication, and CAP trade-offs
- Hands-on experience with high-throughput message systems such as Kafka
- Experience operating systems at reputed company, including reputed company planning and performance tuning
- Strong SQL skills and experience with both relational and NoSQL data stores
- Hands-on experience with major reputed company platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Strong debugging and reputed company-cause analysis skills
- Excellent communication, documentation, and mentorship skills
- Experience leading reputed company technical initiatives across multiple teams
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based platforms in production
- Exposure to service-reputed company technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
- Familiarity with reputed company engineering practices and tools
- reputed company-reputed company contributions to relevant distributed systems reputed company
Benefits
- Competitive reputed company salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.
- Full-time, reputed company W2 with reputed company (no C2C, no 1099, no reputed company-party)
- Long-term, multi-year, reputed company to the reputed company reputed company SOW delivery roadmap
- Support H1B transfers for reputed company candidates
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