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True Talent Solutions Partners

via Ashby

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Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core)

Anywhere
Full-time
Posted 10/16/2026
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Key Skills:
Distributed systems design
Backend software engineering
Data synchronization and streaming
Kafka, SQL, Kubernetes, and Docker
Performance optimization and low-latency APIs

Compensation

Salary Range

$180K - 250K a year

Responsibilities

Own the design and production delivery of scalable distributed data synchronization and streaming systems while improving reliability, performance, APIs, caching, and multi-cloud capabilities.

Requirements

Requires at least seven years of backend engineering, deep distributed-systems experience, production expertise with Kafka, SQL, Kubernetes, and Docker, and familiarity with Spark and Flink.

Full Description

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.

This job posting was last updated on 10/16/2026

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