Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems

Responsibilities

• Performance : Maintain less than 200 ms P95 latency for all user-critical operations at 10x the current scale.
• Incident Reduction : Implement monitoring and automation that reduces production incidents by 80%.
• Team Enablement : Create platform abstractions that let product teams ship features 3x faster.

Requirements

• Must-Have : Distributed Systems Experience.
• 3+ years building and scaling distributed systems handling > 5K concurrent requests in production.
• Hands-on experience with microservices decomposition from monolithic architectures under live traffic.
• Production experience with service mesh technologies and container orchestration at scale.
• Deep understanding of database sharding, replication, and distributed transaction management.
• Hands-on experience with CDN optimisation and edge computing for global/multi-region deployments.
• Proven ability to optimise systems, achieving less than 100 ms P99 latency for critical user-facing operations.

Tech Stack

• What works : FastAPI, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS, Python 3.11+.
• What you'll choose : async framework, message broker, observability stack, Celery queues, and LLM technical calls.

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