Senior Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems

Description :

Responsibilities :

- System Reliability : Achieve 99.95%+ uptime across all critical user-facing services.

- Performance : Maintain < 200ms P95 latency for all user-critical operations at 10x 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.

- Cost Optimisation : Scale infrastructure costs sub-linearly with user growth through intelligent architecture.

- Requirements :

- 6+ years building and scaling distributed systems handling 5K concurrent requests in production.

- Expertise in distributed consensus, eventual consistency, and CAP theorem trade-offs in

production environments.

- Hands-on experience with microservices decomposition from monolithic architectures under live traffic.

- Production experience with service mesh technologies and container orchestration at scale.

Infrastructure and Performance Expertise :

- Experience in distributed caching strategies.

- Production experience with message queue architectures handling > 1M messages/day.

- 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 optimize systems achieving 100ms P99 latency for critical user-facing

operations.

- Experience with zero-trust network architectures and service-to-service authentication.