Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core)

About the Role

This is a core infrastructure engineering role focused on building and optimizing the data syncing engine at the heart of a fast-growing martech SaaS platform. You will work directly with customers on scaling challenges and help shape a multi-cloud, multi-region backend that serves a global customer base. Your work will have direct product impact at significant scale.

What You'll Do

• Own and deliver projects end-to-end with a high degree of autonomy.

• Build and optimize the data syncing engine to move massive volumes of customer data efficiently.

• Implement streaming capabilities to support real-time syncing from sources like webhooks and message queues.

• Identify bottlenecks and design systems for improved scalability and reliability.

• Contribute to a low-latency Personalization API and its caching layer.

• Extend and support the multi-region, multi-cloud backend to meet data residency requirements worldwide.

What We're Looking For

• 6 or more years of experience in distributed systems engineering.

• Hands-on experience building event collection or data streaming services that power critical production systems.

• Strong expertise with Kafka, SQL databases, Kubernetes, and Docker.

• Deep understanding of systems design fundamentals and large-scale distributed systems behavior.

• Experience building data sync engines that process and move terabytes of data per day at scale.

• Familiarity with the infrastructure layer of tools such as Spark, Flink, and Kafka.

• Proven track record owning systems through order-of-magnitude growth.

• Experience working in high-velocity startups through significant growth stages (Series B through Series E equivalent).

• Strong computer science fundamentals from a rigorous academic or professional background.

• Comfortable engaging with product specifications and thinking from a customer perspective alongside backend engineering work.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

Fully remote, open to candidates based in the United States or Canada.