Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join our remote team and discover the possibilities of your best career as a Senior Software Engineer - Big Peer, designing and building scalable, high-performance distributed systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 2-5 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on distributed systems and low-level programming languages like Rust and/or modern C/C++
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and large-scale distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and performance optimization techniques
• Excellent communication skills, especially in asynchronous collaboration
• Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed team

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available and performant distributed systems
• Develop, optimize, and maintain infrastructure that supports Ditto’s peer-to-peer technology, focusing on scaling data synchronization
• Design and maintain high-performance, consistent caches and proxies to bridge Big Peers and Small Peers in the network
• Ensure data consistency and system performance by implementing correctness and load tests
• Collaborate with the SRE team to monitor, debug, and optimize distributed systems in production environments
• Implement automation tools and processes to streamline infrastructure management and deployments
• Write technical documentation, RFCs, and contribute to system architecture designs
• Drive performance tuning efforts to ensure systems meet the demands of large-scale, distributed environments
• Participate in on-call rotations, partnering with the SRE team to manage production systems and ensure uptime

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with storage engines like RocksDB or messaging systems like Kafka
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Stock options
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage
• Flexible spending account (FSA)
• Flexible vacation policy
• 401(k) plan