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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing backend and distributed systems, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and scalability. Proficient in diagnosing complex production issues and contributing to architectural decisions in high-stakes environments.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Backend Engineering ExperienceDistributed Systems ExpertiseProficiency in Rust, Go, Java, or C++Experience with Kubernetes and Cloud InfrastructureStrong Understanding of Software Reliability and System Design
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Hard Skills
Backend EngineeringDistributed SystemsEvent-Driven ArchitecturesConcurrency ManagementState ManagementMessaging SystemsFault TolerancePerformance OptimizationSystem DesignProduction Software Development
Soft Skills
Clear Communication of Technical IdeasHigh OwnershipProblem-Solving
Tools & Technologies
KubernetesCloud InfrastructureDistributed DatabasesWorkflow EnginesStorage Engines
Industry Keywords
Production SystemsOperational ReliabilityObservabilityTechnical DocumentationOpen-Source Contributions
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudDistributed SystemsJavaKubernetesRustC++Go
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design and implement core backend and distributed systems components
- Work on durable execution, state management, messaging, storage, concurrency, and fault tolerance
- Build low-latency, highly reliable systems capable of operating at significant scale
- Improve the performance, scalability, and resilience of the Restate runtime
- Contribute to the architecture and evolution of Restate’s core platform
- Design systems for reliable real-world production operation
- Diagnose and solve complex distributed systems and production issues
- Improve observability, testing, failure handling, and operational reliability
- Work across application code and infrastructure
- Partner with engineering teams building production systems with Restate
- Translate real-world technical challenges into product improvements
- Build reference implementations, integrations, and tooling where useful
- Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and architecture decisions
- Turn recurring technical challenges into reusable systems, tooling, and documentation
- Help define engineering practices as the team and product scale
Requirements
What you’ll need- Strong backend engineering experience building production systems
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or systems involving concurrency, state, messaging, and failure handling
- Strong experience in at least one backend language; Rust, Go, Java, C++, or similar are particularly relevant
- Experience designing, building, and operating production software at scale
- Strong understanding of software reliability, performance, and system design
- Experience with distributed databases, workflow engines, messaging systems, or infrastructure software (nice to have)
- Experience with Rust or other systems programming languages (nice to have)
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (nice to have)
- Experience with storage engines, networking, or low-level systems (nice to have)
- Experience rearchitecting or migrating production systems (nice to have)
- Open-source contributions or experience building developer-facing infrastructure (nice to have)
- Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly through design documents, architecture discussions, and code
- High ownership and ability to thrive in an early-stage environment
- Ability to work directly with engineers to understand and solve real-world technical problems
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