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$180,000–$320,000/yr
US

  • Own projects from initial design through production delivery with significant autonomy.
  • Build and optimize the core data syncing engine for large-scale data movement.
  • Extend multi-region and multi-cloud infrastructure to support data residency requirements.

Distributed Systems Kafka Kubernetes Docker SQL

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$180,000–$320,000/yr
US

  • Build and scale distributed systems to move large volumes of customer data efficiently.
  • Develop streaming capabilities for real-time data syncing from webhooks and message queues.
  • Optimize system performance, latency, and multi-region infrastructure.

A marketing technology company building a distributed data platform for efficient customer data movement. They foster a high-velocity startup culture with a strong emphasis on autonomy and engineering excellence.

$180,000–$320,000/yr
US

  • Own backend systems, improving scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Optimize data warehouse performance and build real-time audience syncing with streaming approaches.
  • Collaborate with product and design to deliver robust backend solutions that address customer needs.

They are a data activation and marketing technology company helping customers turn warehouse data into useful audience insights and actions. Working in a fast-paced environment, they focus on reliable, scalable backend systems and close collaboration with product and design.

$150,000–$170,000/yr
US

  • Design and scale backend systems for data infrastructure, including PostgreSQL data models, Kafka event pipelines, and a GraphQL API.
  • Lead the integration of new services and own the pipelines that deliver dataset snapshots into our warehouse.
  • Collaborate with platform and application teams to implement APIs that unlock new workflows for clinical studies and digital health products.

Beacon Biosignals is transforming precision medicine for the brain with at-home EEG and diagnostic platforms for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. The company values diversity, empathy, and a self-service mindset, with a collaborative remote-first culture.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design and develop scalable, high-performance backend services using Java and AWS technologies.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and ensure smooth integration across the platform.
  • Optimize existing services for performance, reliability, and maintainability while mentoring junior team members.

Oscilar builds the most advanced AI Risk Decisioning Platform for banks, fintechs, and digital native organizations to manage fraud, credit, and compliance risk. The team includes industry veterans from Meta, Uber, Citi, and Confluent, with over 50% of the company in Engineering and Product, fostering a mission-driven culture.

$180,000–$320,000/yr
US

  • Own backend systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Improve data warehouse performance through query optimization and precomputed state.
  • Build analytics and experimentation features for audience creation and performance measurement.

A marketing technology platform helping customers activate warehouse data, build audiences, and measure performance. The company focuses on scalable, reliable systems and a collaborative engineering culture.

$92,880–$131,760/yr
Spain

  • Own and deliver quarterly technical goals for the Communications area, solving ambiguous problems in messaging infrastructure.
  • Design and scale reliable backend services for high-volume communications across multi-region, multi-tenant environments.
  • Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering partners while mentoring teammates and supporting on-call rotation.

Affirm is a financial technology company providing a clear, predictable way to pay over time with no hidden fees. It is a remote-first organization focused on care, transparency, and flexibility, with fully subsidized health coverage and flexible time off.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Build and operate the control plane for large-scale distributed SQL databases like MySQL and TiDB.
  • Design and execute zero-downtime schema and data migrations across multi-tenant clusters.
  • Own the networking stack connecting services to storage on Kubernetes, including proxies like ProxySQL.

Affirm provides honest financial products that give people a clear, predictable way to pay over time. It is a remote-first company focused on care, transparency, and flexibility, with a culture that supports diversity and inclusion.

Global

  • Design and implement high-performance, fault-tolerant connector integrations and distributed microservices for a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
  • Drive technical decisions, mentor junior engineers, and champion best practices including code reviews, testing, and observability.
  • Collaborate with Product, DevOps, and SRE teams to deliver features, resolve production incidents, and improve platform reliability.

Jitterbit automates and orchestrates business systems through a unified AI-infused low-code platform for integration, orchestration, automation, and app development. The company is a growing leader in the iPaaS space with a flexible, remote-friendly culture and a mission-driven team.

Mexico

  • Architect and evolve core control and context planes, including service registries, SLO enforcement, and automated canary releases.
  • Own the service chassis and golden path, maintaining multi-language Java/Python libraries, Helm charts, and deployment pipelines.
  • Drive reliability engineering practices, mentor engineers, and lead architectural strategy for distributed systems at production scale.

The company builds large-scale web data products and distributed engineering infrastructure for AI-driven workflows. It operates a remote-first, globally distributed engineering culture focused on reliability, autonomy, and technical excellence.

India

  • Own architecture health of large-scale distributed systems, including failure modes, capacity constraints, and consistency guarantees.
  • Identify and remediate systemic risks such as single points of failure, unbounded queues, and data-loss scenarios.
  • Work hands-on with Node.js/Go and GCP technologies to prototype solutions and resolve complex failures.

This company operates large-scale distributed systems processing billions of events and messages. Its engineering culture values technical rigor, proactive problem solving, and clear cross-team communication.

Global

  • Own technical design and execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives.
  • Design scalable, reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
  • Lead technically critical initiatives and mentor engineers across teams while staying hands-on.

BJAK builds technology products used by millions of users across Southeast Asia. It is a fast-moving, distributed international team working across multiple countries and time zones.

India 5w PTO 26w maternity 2w paternity

  • Lead architecture and delivery of distributed cloud-native applications for high concurrency and real-time data needs.
  • Build scalable data pipelines, streaming analytics, and integrate ML/AI workflows with data science and engineering partners.
  • Set engineering standards for code quality, security, reliability, and mentor peers while decomposing legacy systems into microservices.

Outreach is the only complete agentic AI platform for revenue teams, powering hundreds of use cases across revenue motions with AI-driven automation and conversation intelligence. The company serves world-leading enterprises like Databricks, SAP, Siemens, and Verizon, fostering an inclusive culture with employee resource groups and a focus on innovation.

$146,000–$225,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Break down larger projects into individual tasks and deliver them in phases with support from your tech lead and manager.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to make decisions that consider risks and trade-offs.
  • Support operations and availability of your team's artifacts by creating metrics and participating in on-call efforts.

Affirm is a financial technology company that provides transparent, flexible payment solutions. The company is remote-first and fosters a culture of care, transparency, and flexibility.

North America

  • Take deep ownership of key systems and product areas, becoming the technical expert and primary point of reference.
  • Architect, build, and maintain highly available and scalable REST APIs and backend services.
  • Use agentic development workflows and AI coding tools as standard engineering practice.

This partner company builds an AI-driven e-commerce messaging platform powered by customer context and data. It is a high-growth, remote-first environment with a collaborative and supportive culture.