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Europe 6w PTO

  • Own technical direction of Stream Video's media plane and infrastructure.
  • Architect the SFU and media pipeline to scale livestreaming, from WebRTC to HLS.
  • Own reliability, autoscaling, placement, cost, and mentor senior engineers.

Go WebRTC Distributed Systems Networking

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Global

  • Architect scalable video streaming and real-time media delivery systems.
  • Design AWS infrastructure spanning multiple regions for high availability.
  • Provide hands-on technical guidance collaborating with senior engineers.

Oowlish is a rapidly expanding software development company in Latin America, delivering digital solutions for clients in the US and Europe. Certified as a Great Place to Work, it fosters a nurturing culture with opportunities for professional growth and international impact.

Latin America

  • Develop and maintain video processing and streaming solutions using GStreamer or FFmpeg.
  • Implement real-time communication solutions with WebRTC and related networking technologies.
  • Build scalable AWS infrastructure for globally distributed media workloads.

Oowlish is a rapidly expanding software development company in Latin America, collaborating with premier clients from the US and Europe. They are certified as a Great Place to Work and offer a nurturing environment with opportunities for professional growth.

US Unlimited PTO 20w maternity 20w paternity

  • Design and deploy Philo's next-generation video streaming pipeline using in-house and open source tech.
  • Collaborate with content partners and internal teams on scalable video delivery and ad systems.
  • Drive improvements to reliability, performance, latency, and security while reducing encoding costs.

Philo is a streaming TV service offering 70+ networks, 85,000 titles, and premium add-ons. The team values pragmatism, transparency, and inclusivity, with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Cambridge, backed by major industry partners.

Global 5w PTO 16w maternity 6w paternity

  • Design and build distributed systems for ingestion, normalization, processing, storage, and delivery of realtime market data.
  • Build and operate streaming solutions handling event ordering, timestamps, duplicates, replay, gaps, and recovery.
  • Lead technical decisions, write clear designs, and mentor engineers to deliver reliable data platforms.

Dune is a blockchain data and intelligence provider making onchain finance observable, serving 130+ chains and 1,000+ industry leaders. We're a tight-knit team of ~50 hardworking people across Europe and US timezones, humble yet ambitious.

$130,000–$170,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and operate distributed Go microservices and media pipelines for low-latency, high-availability ingestion.
  • Build and evolve integrations across SIPREC, RTP, WebRTC, WebSockets, and enterprise contact center platforms.
  • Lead projects from architecture through production support and participate in on-call rotation.

Pindrop is a cybersecurity company delivering continuous identity verification across voice, video, and digital interactions. It protects billions of high-risk interactions for leading financial institutions, insurers, and healthcare organizations, backed by 300+ patents.

US

  • Develop core backend infrastructure for blockchain execution and Ethereum scaling.
  • Tackle distributed systems challenges involving reliability, performance, and scalability.
  • Strengthen security and drive projects from investigation through implementation.

They build foundational infrastructure for Ethereum scalability, security, and decentralized applications. They are a remote-first, globally distributed team collaborating across research, product, and blockchain engineering.

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.

Europe South Africa 5w PTO

  • Design and implement core backend services for high-performance, distributed payment systems.
  • Take ownership of architectural decisions, balancing scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve developer experience through testing, code reviews, and documentation.

The company builds payment infrastructure that lets businesses manage payments efficiently across international markets. It is a globally distributed, product-driven engineering team that values collaboration, engineering excellence, and long-term growth.

$145,500–$235,400/yr
US

  • Design, implement, test, and operate production services and APIs.
  • Lead projects or meaningful components of projects from problem definition through deployment and iteration.
  • Improve the observability and operability of the systems you own, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident learnings.

LaunchDarkly provides a platform that helps engineering teams release software and AI with speed, safety, and control using feature flags and observability. The company is growing and emphasizes teamwork, humility, openness, curiosity, and inclusive collaboration.

Europe

  • Lead and mentor a high-performing team of senior engineers building distributed systems for decentralized compute and storage.
  • Drive technical direction, stay hands-on with architecture, design, and implementation of P2P networking, compute orchestration, and core platform services.
  • Champion reliability, observability, and engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, incident response, and production readiness.

Pragmatike builds decentralized compute and storage platforms powered by distributed systems. They foster a remote-first, async writing-first engineering culture with a focus on pragmatic decision-making and continuous improvement.

Global 5w PTO

  • Own the architecture and evolution of core backend services, from design docs to production.
  • Build and scale distributed systems in Go and TypeScript/JavaScript, including LLM serving APIs and streaming.
  • Optimize performance, reliability, and test coverage while mentoring engineers.

Aleroy is building a unified platform for high-performance AI inference, helping companies deploy and run AI models at scale through a single API. They operate in small, senior teams with low bureaucracy, focusing on reliable, scalable AI infrastructure.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead the architecture and development of the Hercules Database, backend services, and SDKs.
  • Engineer for low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource use across data-intensive, multi-tenant systems.
  • Build and operate reliable hosting infrastructure with strong tenant isolation, observability, and failure resilience.

Hercules builds the future of AI software development with a platform-as-a-service including a database, backend services, and SDKs. It is an early-stage company with a founding team based in San Francisco and a culture that values shipping fast, excellence, and hunger.

Slovenia

  • Design and scale a high-performance object storage platform, contributing across the full stack from client libraries to storage servers.
  • Enhance storage capabilities, asset delivery, edge infrastructure, and storage server performance for reliability and scalability.
  • Improve developer experience by building APIs, CLI tools, and open-source components, and resolve technical issues end-to-end.

This company builds a high-performance object storage platform that simplifies how developers upload, manage, and deliver digital assets. It operates as a globally distributed, open-source-first team with an asynchronous work culture.

$150,000–$170,000/yr
France

  • Build and operate backend infrastructure for high-volume email delivery.
  • Develop SMTP delivery, routing, retries, throttling, and controls.
  • Partner with Trust & Safety to protect the sending network.

Jobgether is an AI-powered recruitment platform that matches candidates to roles using objective core requirements analysis. It operates with a collaborative, low-ego culture and fully remote operations.

US 18w maternity 12w paternity

  • Build and improve customer-facing package registries, APIs, and artifact-serving systems for secure software consumption.
  • Develop and operate backend services in Go, owning projects from technical design through deployment and iteration.
  • Collaborate across engineering and product teams to enhance scalability, reliability, and observability of production systems.

This partner company builds secure, reliable systems for serving software artifacts at scale, including customer-facing registries and APIs. It is a collaborative, remote-first environment focused on engineering ownership and continuous learning.

$160,000–$200,000/yr
Global Unlimited PTO

  • Contribute to architecture and improvement of our data acquisition and processing platform.
  • Use and develop web crawling technologies to capture and catalog data on the internet.
  • Design and develop backend services for distributed job orchestration, data pipelines, and large-scale asynchronous workloads.

People Data Labs is a provider of people and company data, integrating thousands of compliantly sourced datasets into a single, developer-friendly source of truth. We are a team focused on extreme ownership and a one-team mindset, embracing failure as a learning opportunity.

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.

$180,000–$400,000/yr
Global

  • Build powerful, user-friendly tools for enterprises to onboard, manage, and scale Hightouch deployments.
  • Architect scalable backend systems for roles, permissions, access control, and change management.
  • Help admins optimize warehouse performance and costs driven by Hightouch activity.

Hightouch is a data activation platform that lets enterprises sync data from their warehouses into business tools and manage customer data. The company is remote-first, works with large enterprise customers, and values impact, intellectual curiosity, and product-minded engineering.

Global

  • Own the architecture and evolution of APADCode's core backend platform and stateful AI interviewer runtime.
  • Design event-driven systems, coding execution infrastructure, and asynchronous pipelines for AI evaluation.
  • Build production-grade reliability, observability, and security across service boundaries and deployment workflows.

APADCode is an early-stage AI startup building live, adaptive technical interview infrastructure for evaluating software engineers. It is a small, founder-backed team focused on real hiring workflows and direct collaboration.