Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core)

About the Role

Join the Core team as a senior backend engineer responsible for the distributed systems behind a data activation platform. You will build and scale infrastructure that moves customer data reliably across cloud regions and supports demanding performance and data residency needs.

What You'll Do

• Own projects from technical design through production delivery.

• Build and optimize data syncing systems that process terabytes of data daily.

• Develop streaming capabilities for real-time data from webhooks and message queues.

• Find performance bottlenecks and design systems that can support significant growth.

• Improve low-latency APIs and build caching layers to meet performance goals.

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

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

What We're Looking For

• 7 or more years of backend software engineering experience, with deep distributed systems expertise.

• Experience building event collection, data streaming, or data syncing systems for critical services, ideally at terabyte scale.

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

• Strong systems design fundamentals and familiarity with the internals of streaming and batch frameworks such as Spark and Flink.

• A track record of owning systems through substantial growth, ideally in a high-velocity startup environment.

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

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

Remote. Primary location: United States.