Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Distributed Systems

Required

• 7+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a strong focus on backend systems and/or distributed systems.
• Proven experience leading medium‐to‐large engineering initiatives (roughly 3+ months), breaking down ambiguous problems, writing clear solution designs and project plans, coordinating with multiple teams, and driving predictable delivery.
• Hands‐on experience building and maintaining highly concurrent, data‐intensive software, with a deep understanding of low‐level network and disk I/O (for example, throughput, latency, backpressure, batching, and failure modes).
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and navigate ambiguity – you are comfortable taking on problems you haven’t solved before, breaking them down into concrete steps, and driving them to completion with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote‐first environment: you tailor explanations to your audience, translate business requirements into actionable technical work with Product, and help teams reach clear, decisive outcomes with minimal churn.