True Talent Solutions Partners
Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core)
Core engineering role at a data activation platform: build and scale distributed systems that move large volumes of customer data — optimizing sync pipelines, real-time streaming/webhook ingestion, low-latency caching, and multi-region/multi-cloud infrastructure. Requires 7+ years of distributed backend experience (Kafka, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker).
- Compensation
- $180K–$320K / yr
- Location
- Remote
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience with deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems and backend engineering
- Experience building complex, business-critical backend systems and scaling them through substantial growth
- Background creating event collection or data streaming services
- Experience with message queues, Kafka, SQL databases, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Strong systems design fundamentals and familiarity with infrastructure-level technologies such as Spark, Flink, or Kafka
- Strong communication skills, sound technical judgment, and an ability to learn quickly
Nice to have
- Experience building scalable data sync systems that process and move large data volumes
Full description
About the Role
Join the core engineering team building and scaling distributed systems for a data activation platform. You will improve the systems that move large volumes of customer data, working across performance, reliability, and multi-region infrastructure.
What You'll Do
- Analyze and optimize the end-to-end syncing pipeline to move customer data more quickly.
- Design systems that support real-time and streaming data sources, including webhooks and queues.
- Identify scaling and reliability bottlenecks, then architect solutions for significant growth.
- Build and improve low-latency caching services for real-time personalization use cases.
- Develop and operate multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure, including support for data residency needs.
- Own projects from design through delivery and work directly with customers on complex scaling challenges.
What We're Looking For
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience, with deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems and backend engineering.
- Experience building complex, business-critical backend systems and scaling them through substantial growth.
- Background creating event collection or data streaming services, and experience with message queues, Kafka, SQL databases, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Strong systems design fundamentals and familiarity with infrastructure-level technologies such as Spark, Flink, or Kafka.
- Experience building scalable data sync systems that process and move large data volumes is valuable.
- Strong communication skills, sound technical judgment, and an ability to learn quickly.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary range: $180,000 to $320,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
Remote, United States.