Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core)

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join the core engineering team building and scaling distributed systems for a data activation platform. You will improve the systems that move large volumes of customer data, working across performance, reliability, and multi-region infrastructure.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Analyze and optimize the end-to-end syncing pipeline to move customer data more quickly.
• Design systems that support real-time and streaming data sources, including webhooks and queues.
• Identify scaling and reliability bottlenecks, then architect solutions for significant growth.
• Build and improve low-latency caching services for real-time personalization use cases.
• Develop and operate multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure, including support for data residency needs.
• Own projects from design through delivery and work directly with customers on complex scaling challenges.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• At least 7 years of software engineering experience, with deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems and backend engineering.
• Experience building complex, business-critical backend systems and scaling them through substantial growth.
• Background creating event collection or data streaming services, and experience with message queues, Kafka, SQL databases, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Strong systems design fundamentals and familiarity with infrastructure-level technologies such as Spark, Flink, or Kafka.
• Experience building scalable data sync systems that process and move large data volumes is valuable.
• Strong communication skills, sound technical judgment, and an ability to learn quickly.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary range: $180,000 to $320,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

LOCATION

Remote, United States.