Distributed Systems Engineer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Distributed Systems & Reliability Engineer.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, availability, and failover behavior of the centralized planning system in production
• Design and implement leader election, health checks, and controlled failover mechanisms
• Engineer restart-safe workflows and extend observability for key service indicators

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience with distributed, real-time backend systems (C++ and Go)
• Deep understanding of networked, message-driven architectures and distributed databases
• Proven track record in designing high-availability and failover patterns
• Expertise in idempotent operations and APIs that tolerate retries and duplicates
• Hands-on experience with automated testing for distributed systems