Distributed Systems Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Distributed Systems Engineer at Twisp, a fintech company that focuses on developing primitives to help engineers build financial systems. The role involves promoting a culture of correctness, designing, building, and validating core transactional systems. The team is fully remote and the benefits include competitive salary, equity compensation, unlimited paid vacation with mandatory minimums, top-tier health benefits, and remote work.

Requirements

• You’re a foundational lead engineer willing to learn and own the existing system, iterate, and when appropriate, re-engineer
• You’re a driven individual contributor with a mindset of ownership, execution, and delivery
• You have a strong bias toward correctness and verification
• You have experience building and operating large distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Promote a culture of correctness, data integrity, and verifiability
• Design, build, and validate the core transactional, concurrency control, and storage management systems behind Twisp
• Generate confidence in the system via formal verification, automated reasoning, and conformance testing
• Ensure horizontal scalability and dynamic elasticity of computational resources as the architecture evolves and grows
• Contribute to operational excellence through production debugging and support

Preferred Qualifications

You have interest in Bazel, Golang, Rust, and infrastructure-as-code

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity compensation
• Unlimited paid vacation with mandatory minimums
• Top tier health benefits 100% paid for employees
• Fully remote team