Principal Distributed Systems Engineer
Core
Own the distributed backend architecture and multi-year technical roadmap for high-throughput ingestion, event streaming, and time-series storage platforms.
Role type
Principal distributed systems engineer (infrastructure & architecture)
Builds
Multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure, production services, and reference implementations for large-scale data platforms
Domain
Cloud-native distributed systems, multi-tenant platforms, and data infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems architecture, event streaming, high-throughput ingestion, time-series storage, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, multi-cloud strategy, observability, data governance, mentoring
Preferred skills
Go or Rust production experience, network telemetry, graph databases, AI/ML platform infrastructure, regulated-environment experience, open-source contributions
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Go, Rust, Java, Scala
Responsibilities
Define multi-year technical roadmaps and design standards for distributed platforms; Architect high-throughput ingestion pipelines and data APIs; Build production services and reference implementations; Establish observability, reliability, and incident-response practices; Mentor Senior and Staff engineers across organizations
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic scope
