Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Mon, Aug 24, 2026
This job expires in: 27 days
Job Summary
Seeking a remote Senior Distributed Systems Engineer, the successful candidate will build highly-available and scalable data-driven services, focusing on real-time applications and internal APIs while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance security and data initiatives.
Key responsibilities
- Develop large-scale, real-time services and applications utilizing extensive datasets
- Create and maintain tooling, libraries, frameworks, and services to support security and data platform initiatives
- Participate in technical discussions and planning to deliver effective solutions across engineering and product teams
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on distributed systems
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming, particularly in Go
- Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Familiarity with message queue technologies like AWS Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub, or Kafka
- Understanding of core distributed systems concepts, including scalability and fault tolerance
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