Infrastructure Software Engineer Metadata Core

This is a remote position.
We are looking for an Infrastructure Software Engineer to join a team responsible for building and operating large-scale distributed database and storage infrastructure. The role focuses on designing low-latency, highly available, and strongly consistent systems , working with replication, partitioning, consensus mechanisms, caching, and fault tolerance. The engineer will develop performance-critical solutions using Go, Rust, or C++ , troubleshoot complex production issues, and contribute to the scalability, reliability, and long-term evolution of distributed data platforms.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain distributed database systems

- Build low latency and strongly consistent data infrastructure

- Design and optimise replication mechanisms

- Work with consensus and coordination mechanisms

- Develop caching solutions

- Improve availability and performance

- Maintain data durability

- Develop performance critical systems in Go and Rust

- Operate production systems

- Troubleshoot complex production issues

- Participate in system design reviews

- Participate in postmortems and reliability improvements

- Work with infrastructure and product engineering teams

- Support development of the longer term infrastructure roadmap

Requirements

- Minimum 5 years professional software engineering experience

- Strong distributed systems fundamentals

- Replication

- Consistency

- Partitioning

- Fault tolerance

- Experience building database platforms, distributed databases, storage systems or large scale database infrastructure

- Go, Rust, C++ or similar systems programming language

- Production systems experience

- Strong debugging skills

- Strong performance analysis skills

- Raft, Paxos, ZooKeeper, etcd

Benefits

- Fully remote working model

- Solid, competitive salary

- Work in a multinational environment on international projects

- Comprehensive healthcare

- Long-term B2B contract with a stable project pipeline

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