Infrastructure Software Engineer Metadata Core

About this role

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 designinglow-latency, highly available, and strongly consistent systems, working with replication, partitioning, consensus mechanisms, caching, and fault tolerance. The engineer will develop performance-critical solutions usingGo, 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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