Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core)

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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.