Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer based in Canada.

This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer to design and scale highly available distributed systems that power critical internet intelligence solutions. You will work on large-scale data platforms, real-time services, and infrastructure that supports security-focused applications. The role involves building reliable systems that process massive datasets and enable valuable insights for customers and internal teams. You will collaborate with engineering, product, research, and machine learning teams in a highly technical environment. The ideal candidate enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges while maintaining a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and developer experience. You will have the opportunity to influence architecture decisions and contribute to systems that impact how organizations understand and secure the internet.

Accountabilities:

As a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable systems that process and analyze large volumes of internet data. You will contribute to platform capabilities, improve engineering practices, and collaborate across teams to deliver reliable solutions.

• Build and maintain large-scale, real-time services and applications powered by extensive datasets.
• Develop tooling, libraries, frameworks, and platform services supporting security, research, and data initiatives.
• Transform prototypes into reliable production systems with strong monitoring, maintainability, and operational standards.
• Design and improve distributed systems including data pipelines, messaging systems, databases, caching layers, and cloud-based services.
• Participate in technical planning, architecture discussions, and solution design with engineering and product teams.
• Collaborate with machine learning and security specialists to develop solutions with measurable impact.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code while contributing to engineering best practices.
• Support continuous improvements in system reliability, scalability, and developer workflows.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is a highly experienced software engineer with strong expertise in distributed systems and cloud-based architectures. You should be comfortable working independently, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and applying modern engineering practices to complex technical challenges.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on distributed systems, data platforms, services, or large-scale applications.
• Strong experience with object-oriented programming, preferably with Go or similar languages.