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$100,000–$150,000/yr
US

  • Design and build scalable backend platforms and shared infrastructure.
  • Architect high-throughput, low-latency systems with event-driven architectures.
  • Establish observability standards, mentor engineers, and drive technical excellence.

Java Go Kafka Distributed Systems Kubernetes

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United States Unlimited PTO

  • Design, implement, and ship features for the Temporal server.
  • Solve distributed systems challenges across areas such as task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, and visibility.
  • Improve the reliability and operability of the server through testing, observability, and documentation.

Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox and are building the team to make that happen.

$170,000–$220,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Design and deliver large-scale, real-time systems with high quality, scalability, and operability.
  • Collaborate with product management, data engineering, and teams to bring end-to-end solutions to customers.
  • Take operational ownership using monitoring and observability tools to identify and respond to issues.

Signifyd helps merchants grow their businesses by building trusted relationships and providing fraud-free commerce solutions. We securely process billions of transactions annually and foster a culture of commitment, empathy, and creativity.

Europe Ukraine

  • Design and implement core components of the real-time audience segmentation platform.
  • Build scalable evaluation engines and event-driven pipelines for continuous data changes.
  • Optimize system performance, caching strategies, and operational efficiency across distributed systems.

Sigma Software is a technology company that develops advanced platforms for audience segmentation, personalization, and customer engagement. They value innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence, working on challenging tasks with cutting-edge technologies at scale.

India

  • Design and architect scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems for Netomi's core platform.
  • Build and optimize low-latency applications capable of handling high-throughput workloads using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS.
  • Lead technical design discussions, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence across the team.

Netomi is the leading agentic AI platform for enterprise customer experience, helping global brands automate customer journeys. Backed by WndrCo, Y Combinator, and Index Ventures, they are a growing company focused on AI-driven innovation and engineering excellence.

Global

  • Design and implement a scalable event-driven communications platform for high-load multi-channel delivery.
  • Build highly reliable and fault-tolerant message delivery systems ensuring delivery continuity.
  • Manage large-scale real-time event processing pipelines and implement provider failover strategies.

Sigma Software is building a high-load multi-channel communications platform for an EdTech company, delivering critical notifications to millions of users. They offer a remote, international engineering environment with opportunities to influence architectural decisions and collaborate with experienced teams on modern cloud-native solutions.

Ireland

  • Design and implement real-time services with high throughput and low latency, then verify, deploy and operationalize them.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand customer needs and deliver simple, robust, and scalable solutions.
  • Embrace the challenge of scaling a complex distributed platform with global points of presence, ensuring high availability and reliability.

Twilio delivers innovative communication solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empowers millions of developers worldwide. They are a remote-first company with a strong culture of connection and global inclusion, employing a diverse global team.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services in Go for data ingestion, storage, and querying.
  • Own and evolve critical platform components including APIs, messaging systems, and query-serving architectures.
  • Drive architectural decisions for system reliability, scalability, observability, and operational excellence.

Our partner is a company building foundational systems for large-scale data platforms and analytics capabilities, focusing on distributed backend services. They offer a remote-first, high-ownership environment with cross-functional collaboration and AI-driven productivity tools.

  • Own and drive architecture and design for large-scale, complex internal platform systems.
  • Define and influence the long-term technical roadmap, ensuring scalability and reliability at global scale.
  • Lead platform modernisation initiatives, including architecture evolution, technical debt reduction, and reliability improvements.

OKX is a leading crypto exchange and developer of the OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized applications. The company is trusted by large institutions, backed by Proof of Reserves, and united by core principles that foster a friendly, rewarding, and diverse environment.

Global 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Define technical solutions for new AI security products and shape architecture.
  • Mentor team members and serve as technical point of contact.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Security to deliver high-impact features.

Docker provides developer tools for building, sharing, and running applications, trusted by over 20 million monthly users and powering over 20 billion container image pulls. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team with a culture of freedom, flexibility, and ownership.

$140,000–$165,000/yr
US

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable back-end systems and APIs for high-throughput messaging operations.
  • Improve platform reliability, performance, observability, and automation across onboarding, compliance, and routing.
  • Collaborate with Product and Operations teams to translate complex workflows into scalable distributed systems.

Volt Labs builds the infrastructure layer behind modern business messaging, helping companies navigate messaging compliance, onboarding, deliverability, routing, and operational complexity across carriers and providers. We are a remote-first, high-ownership team operating in a fast-moving growth environment with a deep focus on builder mentality, operational excellence, and collaborative culture.

Global

  • Design and own backend systems for high-throughput, asynchronous workloads including generation queues and media processing
  • Architect for scale and reliability, making decisions on data flow, service boundaries, and failure handling
  • Build and optimize async pipelines with job queuing, retries, backpressure, and dead-letter handling

ImagineArt is a bootstrapped GenAI platform for image and video generation, serving Fortune 500 clients with $35M+ ARR. They are a small, fast-moving team with a low-process, bootstrapped culture.

$151,000–$206,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Help build large scale, real-time services and applications leveraging massive datasets to power internal APIs and external applications.
  • Build tooling, libraries, frameworks, and services that support security, research and data platform initiatives.
  • Participate in planning and technical discussions with engineering and product teams to build the right solutions.

Censys provides real-time Internet intelligence and actionable threat insights to global governments, over 50% of the Fortune 500, and leading threat intelligence providers worldwide. They are a distributed team with roots in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and are committed to creating an inclusive environment.

Poland

  • Design and implement high-performance microservices in Java/Spring Boot and maintain event-driven integrations using Apache Kafka.
  • Take full ownership of features end-to-end, work directly with business stakeholders, and write clear technical documentation.
  • Mentor team members, hold the bar on code quality through reviews and CI/CD, and proactively address technical debt.

InPost Group is an innovative European out of home deliveries company, revolutionizing parcel delivery through intelligent lockers. With over 10,000 employees worldwide and a market capitalization of about $5 billion, it is one of the largest out of home delivery providers in Europe, committed to sustainable and efficient solutions.

$102,200–$116,800/yr
Canada

  • You will partner with engineering leadership to evolve foundational architecture for a cloud-native, event-driven telecom platform.
  • You will own developer experience, building tooling, CI pipeline performance, and dependency management across a shared monorepo.
  • You will develop and manage a small team of senior engineers, championing AI-first development practices and establishing engineering standards.

Wavelo is a SaaS business that modernizes software for telecom providers, helping them scale operations and improve customer experience. As part of Tucows, one of the world's largest Internet services companies, it embraces a people-first philosophy with a remote-first culture.

$200,000–$250,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead technical conversations with developers and architects to understand systems and business objectives.
  • Build tailored demos and proof-of-concepts that showcase Temporal's solutions for customer problems.
  • Deliver enablement sessions and create reusable technical assets to accelerate the sales cycle.

Temporal is an open source programming model that simplifies code and makes applications more reliable. It is a growing, values-driven team with a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and humility.

US Canada Unlimited PTO 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Design, develop, and maintain core platform systems that support the Docker Desktop lifecycle.
  • Build and evolve shared components like settings, feature flags, and internal platform services.
  • Improve system reliability, performance, and observability through telemetry and diagnostics.

Docker provides developer tools for building, sharing, and running applications, trusted by over 20 million monthly users. They are a globally distributed, remote-first team with offices in Seattle and Paris.

Spain 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Design a scalable architecture for the agent layer and evaluate new technologies to boost performance.
  • Lead technical discussions, conduct code reviews, and provide guidance to foster a culture of continuous learning.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and product management to prioritize features and manage risks.

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find answers in real time using all their data at scale. With more than 50% of the Fortune 500 using its platform, Elastic is a distributed company that values diversity and work-life balance.

$217,000–$303,000/yr
United States

  • Build and maintain a highly available, reliable, and low-latency backend developer platform at internet scale.
  • Drive storage as a service strategy and create the technical foundation for future features.
  • Contribute to the entire development cycle from design to launch, and mentor engineers on best practices.

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust, hosting the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, it is one of the internet's largest sources of information, fostering a collaborative and innovative culture.

Global

  • Design and build highly scalable platform services to improve reliability and performance of the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE).
  • Lead development of production-grade backend services and APIs supporting multiple internal stakeholders and platform consumers.
  • Drive architectural improvements enabling vertical and horizontal platform scaling while improving workflow execution durability and resilience.

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing capital markets onchain and powering decentralized finance (DeFi). Chainlink Labs, the core developer, is a large global organization with a remote-first culture, tens of billions in transaction value, and partnerships with major financial institutions.

Global

  • Design and optimize scalable APIs and distributed services for mission-critical fraud detection technology.
  • Investigate complex technical issues through root cause analysis and performance testing.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver robust, production-ready solutions while mentoring junior engineers.

The hiring partner company builds high-performance backend systems for real-time fraud detection technology used by organizations worldwide. The engineering team is globally distributed and values technical excellence, autonomy, and knowledge sharing.