Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud; Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal
Listed on 2026-02-16
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Software Development
Cloud Engineer - Software, Software Engineer, DevOps, Backend Developer
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Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud (Senior/Lead/Principal)Note:
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Our Public Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining a large scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day. Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship.
You will need deep experience with concurrency, large scale systems, proficiency with solving real-world data management challenges, a strong understanding of how to craft solutions that are highly available, and a proven ability to design, develop, and optimize the core back-end systems.
Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba
Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers
Using and contributing to open source technology (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.)Developing Infrastructure-as-Code using TerraformWriting microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos
Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available
Required Skills:A related technical degree required3+ years backend software development experience
Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service
Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development
Experience with critical infrastructure services including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications
Experience with distributed database system and relational databases like postgres is a plus.
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