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Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-27

reputed company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with expertise in distributed systems to design, build, and operate large-reputed company, high-throughput backend services. The ideal candidate will combine strong fundamentals in computer science with practical experience operating distributed systems at reputed company.

Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits

  • Competitive reputed company salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.

Originally posted on Himalayas

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