Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core)

About the Role

Join the Core team at a data activation platform company, building and operating the distributed systems behind its data syncing engine. You will own high-impact projects that support reliable, performant data movement across multi-cloud and multi-region environments.

What You'll Do

• Own projects from initial design through production delivery with significant autonomy.

• Build and optimize the core data syncing engine for large-scale data movement.

• Develop streaming capabilities for real-time syncing from sources such as webhooks and message queues.

• Identify system bottlenecks and design solutions that support substantial growth.

• Improve API latency and build caching layers to meet performance goals.

• Extend multi-region and multi-cloud infrastructure to support data residency requirements.

• Work with customers on scaling challenges and contribute to platform reliability.

What We're Looking For

• At least 7 years of backend software engineering experience, with deep distributed systems expertise.

• Experience building scalable data sync engines or event collection and streaming services that support critical systems and large data volumes.

• Strong systems design fundamentals and experience scaling systems through significant growth.

• Production experience with Kafka, SQL databases, Kubernetes, Docker, and message queues.

• Familiarity with the infrastructure and design of streaming and batch processing frameworks such as Spark and Flink.

• Experience at a high-growth startup and a record of owning complex systems.

• Strong computer science fundamentals, communication skills, and ability to learn quickly.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

Remote, United States.