Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core)

About the Role

Join the Core team at a B2B customer data platform company and own critical parts of its data syncing engine. You will build reliable, high-performance infrastructure that moves data across multi-cloud and multi-region environments.

What You'll Do

• Lead projects from initial design through production with significant autonomy.

• Build and optimize the data syncing engine to move large volumes of data efficiently.

• Implement streaming capabilities for real-time syncing from webhooks and message queues.

• Find performance bottlenecks and design systems that can scale through substantial growth.

• Improve low-latency APIs and develop caching layers to meet performance goals.

• Extend multi-region and multi-cloud infrastructure to support data residency needs.

What We're Looking For

• At least 7 years of backend software engineering experience, with deep expertise in distributed systems and systems design.

• Experience building and scaling complex backend systems, including data syncing engines that process terabytes of data daily.

• Production experience with Kafka, SQL databases, Kubernetes, Docker, and message queues.

• Understanding of streaming and batch processing frameworks, such as Spark and Flink, and experience working close to the infrastructure layer.

• Experience building event collection or data streaming services that support critical systems.

• A track record of scaling systems through substantial growth and working at high-velocity startups, ideally across Series A through Series E stages.

• Strong computer science fundamentals, communication skills, and ability to learn quickly.

Compensation & Benefits

The salary range is $180,000 to $320,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

This is a remote role based in the United States.