Lead Distributed Systems Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and technical troubleshooting for resilient distributed software solutions.
• Develop and maintain secure, low-latency and/or high-throughput production services, background workers, and APIs.
• Design complex distributed applications, including service decomposition, consistency patterns, caching, and failover, and ensure implementation meets design constraints.
• Own observability, incident response, capacity planning, and performance optimization for systems.
• Analyze production telemetry and business data to improve reliability and scalability; detect failure modes and drive improvements.
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, security, and application teams to deliver integrated capabilities and clear service contracts.
• Contribute through engineering communities, mentoring, and design and code reviews, and support an inclusive team culture.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline.
• Recent hands-on experience building distributed systems in one or more modern object-oriented languages.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, consensus, idempotency, concurrency, retries, timeouts, partitioning, replication, and failure handling.
• Practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and production operational stability.
• Experience maintaining code in a large corporate environment, including database querying and data modeling with SQL and/or NoSQL.
• Knowledge of SDLC and engineering practices such as code review, automated testing, secure coding, and release management.
• Working knowledge of agile delivery practices, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security controls.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in financial services is desirable, but not required.
• Experience building high-performance, resilient enterprise applications is preferred.
• Experience working within a strong software build, test, and deployment process is preferred.
• Interest in learning about financial products is preferred.

Compensation

• Listed salary range is $156,750–$215,000 per year. Additional eligible compensation may include commission-based pay or discretionary incentives.