Job description
This is a remote position.
We are looking for an Infrastructure Software Engineer to join a team responsible for building and operating large-scale distributed database and storage infrastructure. The role focuses on designinglow-latency, highly available, and strongly consistent systems, working with replication, partitioning, consensus mechanisms, caching, and fault tolerance. The engineer will develop performance-critical solutions usingGo, Rust, or C++, troubleshoot complex production issues, and contribute to the scalability, reliability, and long-term evolution of distributed data platforms.
Responsibilities
Design and maintain distributed database systems
Build low latency and strongly consistent data infrastructure
Design and optimise replication mechanisms
Work with consensus and coordination mechanisms
Develop caching solutions
Improve availability and performance
Maintain data durability
Develop performance critical systems in Go and Rust
Operate production systems
Troubleshoot complex production issues
Participate in system design reviews
Participate in postmortems and reliability improvements
Work with infrastructure and product engineering teams
Support development of the longer term infrastructure roadmap
Requirements
Minimum 5 years professional software engineering experience
Strong distributed systems fundamentals
Replication
Consistency
Partitioning
Fault tolerance
Experience building database platforms, distributed databases, storage systems or large scale database infrastructure
Go, Rust, C++ or similar systems programming language
Production systems experience
Strong debugging skills
Strong performance analysis skills
Raft, Paxos, ZooKeeper, etcd
Benefits
Fully remote working model
Solid, competitive salary
Work in a multinational environment on international projects
Comprehensive healthcare
Long-term B2B contract with a stable project pipeline
Originally posted on Himalayas
Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.