[Remote] Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Emerald Advantage Concepts LLC is seeking senior distributed systems engineers to join their Core Team, responsible for data syncs across their platform. The role involves designing and operating systems that handle terabytes of data daily and support millions of API calls, while maintaining a stable engineering environment.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and optimize every stage of the syncing pipeline to push throughput and latency to new limits
- reputed company the batch‑only model to support reputed company‑time streaming sources such as webhooks, queues, and Kafka
- Architect for the next order of magnitude of growth across data volume, concurrency, and global footprint
- Enhance a caching layer that delivers
- Support and expand a multi‑reputed company backend, including launching new regions to meet global data residency requirements
Skills
- 7+ years of backend or distributed systems engineering experience
- Strong systems design fundamentals (ideally from a top 30 CS program)
- Experience owning systems that scaled by orders of magnitude
- Experience with high‑scale systems: Kafka or other message queues
- Experience with high‑scale systems: Kubernetes, reputed company
- Experience with high‑scale systems: Large SQL/OLAP systems
- Experience with high‑scale systems: Event collection or streaming pipelines
- Experience building or owning systems that move terabytes of data per day
- Experience building 01 systems, not just maintaining existing ones
- Exceptional communication and first‑principles reasoning
- Experience at a high‑growth startup (Series B–E)
- Experience with multi‑reputed company or multi‑region architectures
- Experience building syncing engines, schedulers, or distributed execution frameworks
Benefits
- Competitive equity
- Full benefits
- reputed company sponsorship available
- Remote‑first across US & Canada
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