{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"0cee2f2f503c38946d5ec41a","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/0cee2f2f503c38946d5ec41a","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/0cee2f2f503c38946d5ec41a","title":"Backend | Distributed Systems Engineer","description":"Software is changing.Applications are becoming increasingly long-running, stateful, autonomous, and distributed. As systems grow more complex, engineers spend more and more time solving the same infrastructure problems:retries, failures, orchestration, state management, communication, and recovery.We don't think every engineering team should have to build those capabilities themselves.At Restate, we're buildingdurable executionas a foundational infrastructure primitive—making reliability a default property of modern applications instead of an engineering burden.We're looking for a Backend / Distributed Systems Engineer to help us build and evolve that infrastructure.You’ll work on the core systems that make Restate fast, reliable, and scalable—from distributed execution and state management to storage, messaging, and production infrastructure. You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with other engineers building real production systems, giving you a direct view into how the systems you build are used and where they can be improved.If you enjoy distributed systems, backend infrastructure, and solving difficult engineering problems, we’d love to talk.About Restate\r\nRestate (https://restate.dev/) is a lightweight runtime that turns services, workflows, and AI applications intodurable processes .Developers adopt Restate so they can focus on business logic while Restate handles the challenges of building resilient, scalable applications—retries, state, communication, orchestration, and recovery.Restate itself is built as alow‑latency durable execution runtime in Rust , designed for production scale with its own optimized storage engine. Developers can build Restate applications using TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, Rust, or Ruby.Today, Restate powers production workloads atFortune 500 companies —including Tier 1 financial institutions as well as fast‑growing infrastructure and AI companies building mission‑critical systems.Our team includes the creators ofApache Flinkand engineers who built large‑scale distributed systems at Meta. We care deeply about building infrastructure developers genuinely enjoy using, with thoughtful engineering and elegant systems.The Role\r\nAs a Backend / Distributed Systems Engineer, you’ll work across the systems that make Restate a reliable foundation for modern applications.You’ll design and build backend infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer‑facing capabilities that need to operate reliably at production scale. You’ll work on problems involvingdistributed execution, state, storage, messaging, concurrency, fault tolerance, and recovery .This is a hands‑on engineering role. You’ll spend the majority of your timedesigning, building, testing, and improving software .You’ll also have opportunities to work directly with engineers using Restate in production. Rather than sitting behind a product boundary, you’ll see firsthand how teams are building with Restate, help solve challenging technical problems when needed, and bring those insights back into the product.As one of our early engineers, you’ll have significant influence over both the technology and the engineering practices we build around it.What You’ll Do\r\nBuild distributed systems infrastructureDesign and implement core backend and distributed systems componentsWork on problems involvingdurable execution, state management, messaging, storage, concurrency, and fault toleranceBuild systems that are low‑latency, highly reliable, and capable of operating at significant scaleImprove the performance, scalability, and resilience of the Restate runtimeContribute to the architecture and evolution of Restate's core platformBuild for productionDesign systems that operate reliably in real‑world production environmentsDiagnose and solve complex distributed systems and production issuesImprove 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production systemsExperience withdistributed systems, event-driven architectures, or other systems involving concurrency, state, messaging, and failure handlingStrong experience in at least one backend language;Rust, Go, Java, C++, or similarare particularly relevantExperience designing, building, and operating production software at scaleStrong understanding of software reliability, performance, and system designNice to Have:Experience with distributed databases, workflow engines, messaging systems, or other infrastructure softwareExperience with Rust or other systems programming languagesExperience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructureExperience with storage engines, networking, or low‑level systemsExperience rearchitecting or migrating production systemsOpen‑source contributions or experience building developer‑facing infrastructureHow You WorkYou enjoy solving difficult technical problems and digging deep into how systems work.You care about correctness, performance, 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