Staff Engineer - Distributed Systems; Fully Remote

• Own the architecture health of a billion-scale distributed system, its failure modes, capacity limits, consistency guarantees, and interactions between 50+ deployments.
• Approve critical-path designs, making your case on merit when disagreements arise.
• Hunt gaps proactively and drive fixes before they become incidents.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of engineering experience with deep, hands-on ownership of large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep command of queueing and async architectures, delivery semantics, ordering, back pressure, idempotency.
• Expert-level depth in Redis or comparable in-memory systems and their failure modes.

What You're Built For:

• You've owned distributed systems at serious scale and have the scars to show it.
• You think in failure modes by default, asking what happens at the tail, under partition, at 10x load.
• You write design docs and RCAs that people reference years later, with clear trade-offs and real recommendations.

High Level is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, High Level operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership.