Remote Software engineering Jobs · Distributed Systems

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$164,448–$234,926/yr
North America 5w PTO 26w maternity 26w paternity

  • Manage and support a team of 7-8 engineers developing the core RightsDB, a foundational database for copyright and rightsholder ownership data.
  • Provide mentorship, coaching, and technical guidance to help team members develop their skills and career paths.
  • Partner with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to define scope, roadmap, and priorities ensuring alignment between business needs and technical implementation.

Spotify is a global music streaming platform that connects artists and listeners through personalized audio experiences. With a large, inclusive, and growth-oriented culture, we empower teams to innovate and scale systems that serve millions of users worldwide.

  • Build and evolve the Core Commerce Services platform from early design to production.
  • Shape the architecture by defining APIs, domain boundaries, and integration patterns.
  • Mentor and grow engineers through pairing, design discussions, and code reviews.

Redcare Pharmacy is Europe's No.1 e-pharmacy, providing online pharmacy services. The company fosters a collaborative work environment where employees feel valued and inspired.

  • Establish performance, throughput, latency, and capacity baselines for critical platform workflows.
  • Define and maintain SLOs, error budgets, dashboards, alerts, and reliability thresholds.
  • Lead load, stress, soak, spike, failure, and recovery testing in representative environments.

Tech Holding is a full-service consulting firm that delivers predictable outcomes and high-quality solutions to clients. The company was founded by experienced industry professionals who have held senior positions at startups to Fortune 50 firms, fostering a culture of deep expertise, integrity, transparency, and dependability.

$217,000–$303,900/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Work collaboratively with a team to create and maintain the foundational platform for Reddit's infrastructure.
  • Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components.
  • Contribute upstream changes to open source projects and share on-call responsibilities.

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information, employing a flexible-first workforce that values open-source contributions.

  • Design and evolve core services tracking account state, eligibility, and entitlements across millions of accounts.
  • Partner with product and design to turn concepts into scalable technical designs, collaborating with Payments and Wallet.
  • Set technical direction, lead design reviews, and mentor engineers to raise the bar on system design.

Airbnb is a global marketplace for unique stays and experiences, with over 5 million hosts welcoming guests worldwide. We foster an inclusive culture that values diversity and belonging, supported by a broad talent pool.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Define and drive the technical vision for Implementation Platform Configuration and Enrollment Platform Core, ensuring scalability and reliability.
  • Lead and mentor a group of Engineering Managers, owning delivery commitments and incident posture across teams.
  • Drive AI adoption and testing strategies to scale platform reliability and reduce manual effort.

Bestow is a vertical technology platform that modernizes life insurance infrastructure for carriers. Backed by leading investors, the company fosters a culture of precision, purpose, and collaboration with flexible work options.

Brazil 6w PTO

  • Build and maintain the core API that customers, SDKs, Terraform provider, and internal systems depend on.
  • Work with our platform architect and lead backend engineer on design and implementation.
  • Contribute to the developer-facing surface: REST APIs, webhooks, and SDK compatibility.

Megaport is the global leader in Network as a Service (NaaS), connecting businesses to the cloud, data centers, and each other. With over 600 employees across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, the company fosters a collaborative, supportive, and fun culture.

  • Design and implement core P2P networking and storage primitives in Node.js.
  • Optimize protocols for performance, latency, and reliability across unreliable networks.
  • Collaborate on distributed systems, cryptography, and high-performance networking.

Holepunch builds peer-to-peer networking and distributed systems technologies using Node.js and decentralized protocols. The company is a globally distributed, remote-first team with a strong focus on engineering excellence.

  • Design and build scalable systems for AI training data and evaluation.
  • Own projects end-to-end, from technical design to deployment.
  • Build human-in-the-loop platforms and annotator workflows.

An early-stage AI infrastructure company building training data and evaluation systems for frontier AI labs. A post-Series A organization with a small engineering team, offering significant individual ownership and influence.

$200,000–$350,000/yr

  • Define architecture for complex, high-impact systems.
  • Lead company-critical engineering initiatives.
  • Mentor senior and staff-level engineers.

They build sophisticated infrastructure and software systems for critical business operations. They are a rapidly scaling company with a collaborative, fast-moving culture where ownership is encouraged and decisions are made quickly.