Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems

3-5 Years

Not Disclosed

Early Applicant

Job Description

Responsibilities

Performance : Maintain less than 200 ms P95 latency for all user-critical operations at 10x the current scale.
Incident Reduction : Implement monitoring and automation that reduces production incidents by 80%.
Team Enablement : Create platform abstractions that let product teams ship features 3x faster.

Requirements

Must-Have : Distributed Systems Experience.
3+ years building and scaling distributed systems handling > 5K concurrent requests in production.
Hands-on experience with microservices decomposition from monolithic architectures under live traffic.
Production experience with service mesh technologies and container orchestration at scale.
Deep understanding of database sharding, replication, and distributed transaction management.
Hands-on experience with CDN optimisation and edge computing for global/multi-region deployments.
Proven ability to optimise systems, achieving less than 100 ms P99 latency for critical user-facing operations.

Tech Stack

What works : FastAPI, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS, Python 3.11+.
What you'll choose : async framework, message broker, observability stack, Celery queues, and LLM technical calls.

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