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Backend Engineer, Distributed Systems & Infrastructure

Digital Waffle • United States
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Builds and maintains distributed backend systems and infrastructure for a high-scale tech company. Focuses on designing scalable services, end-to-end infrastructure ownership, and architectural decision-making. Requires hands-on experience with distributed systems, production infrastructure, and troubleshooting critical failures.

Key Highlights
Design and build distributed backend services for high throughput and reliability
End-to-end infrastructure ownership including deployment, observability, and performance
Work with a small, senior team in San Francisco with direct impact on production systems
Key Responsibilities
Design and build distributed backend services
Own infrastructure end-to-end (deployment, observability, reliability, performance)
Make architectural decisions shaping platform scalability
Technical Skills Required
Distributed Systems Kubernetes AWS/GCP
Benefits & Perks
$200K–$280K base salary
Meaningful equity
On-site relocation support for US/European candidates
Nice to Have
Database internals expertise
Event streaming (Kafka) experience
Experience at high-scale tech companies or infra-heavy startups

Job Description

Some engineers write code that works. Others build the systems everyone else’s code depends on. We’re looking for the second kind.

What you’ll do:

  • Design and build distributed backend services that handle high throughput and stay up when it matters
  • Own infrastructure end to end: deployment, observability, reliability, performance
  • Make architectural calls that shape how the platform scales over the next few years
  • Work in person with a small, senior team where your decisions ship fast and matter

What you bring:

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