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Distributed Systems Engineer

Home Based - Worldwide🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-01 → 2026-09-29

Core

Designing and building high-performance APIs, telemetry, and connectivity solutions for IoT devices and SaaS services.

Role type

Senior IC distributed systems engineer (IoT/Backend)

Builds

Scalable cloud-based SaaS solutions, containerized on-prem deployments, and data streaming capabilities for IoT.

Domain

IoT, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Streaming

Required skills

Go, Python, REST APIs, IAM models, encryption, access control, GDPR compliance, decentralized data ownership models, high-throughput low-latency system design, MQTT, Kafka, RabbitMQ, OpenTelemetry, OPC-UA, ModBus, Ubuntu

Preferred skills

Cybersecurity principles, mentoring junior engineers, cross-functional collaboration

Technologies

Go, Python, MQTT, Kafka, RabbitMQ, OpenTelemetry, OPC-UA, ModBus, Ubuntu

Responsibilities

Design and architect scalable backend services, messaging/data pipelines, and REST APIs; Develop governance, auditing, and management systems for telemetry platforms; Partner with infrastructure teams to build scalable cloud-based SaaS and containerized on-prem solutions; Lead design, implementation, and optimization of new features from specification to production; Provide technical oversight, review code and designs, and set best practices; Engage in high-level technical discussions to collaborate on optimal solutions.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship

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