[Remote] Backend Systems Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bright Vision Technologies is a software development company that builds scalable, secure, and user-friendly applications to help businesses automate and optimize their operations. The Backend Systems Engineer will design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend systems and services, focusing on scalability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence. The role also involves architecture leadership, incident response, mentoring, and collaboration with SRE and platform teams.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement large-scale distributed backend systems using Java, Go, Scala, or similar high-performance languages
- Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies appropriate to each workload’s requirements
- Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with strong observability, idempotency, and graceful degradation patterns
- Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost, using profiling, benchmarking, and load testing
- Lead detailed architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and trade-off analyses
- Implement robust failure-handling patterns including retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and saga workflows
- Design and operate data stores at scale, including relational, key-value, document, and search engines
- Build comprehensive observability into services with structured logs, metrics, and distributed tracing
- Drive incident response and post-incident learning for critical backend services
- Mentor mid-level engineers and lead by example in code quality, design, and operational rigor
- Partner with SRE and platform teams to drive reliability improvements and reduce operational toil
- Contribute to long-term architecture and platform strategy, helping shape multi-year technical roadmaps and ensuring near-term execution remains aligned with the broader engineering direction
- Maintain comprehensive, current technical documentation — including architecture diagrams, design decisions, configuration references, runbooks, and operational procedures — so that the system remains supportable, auditable, and easy to onboard new engineers onto over time
Skills
- * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- * Six or more years of professional backend engineering experience, with significant time on distributed systems
- * Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar
- * Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, replication, and CAP trade-offs
- * Hands-on experience with high-throughput message systems such as Kafka
- * Experience operating systems at scale, including capacity planning and performance tuning
- * Strong SQL skills and experience with both relational and NoSQL data stores
- * Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- * Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills
- * Excellent communication, documentation, and mentorship skills
- * Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams
- * Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based platforms in production
- * Exposure to service-mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
- * Familiarity with chaos engineering practices and tools
- * Open-source contributions to relevant distributed systems projects
Benefits
- 100% Remote (Continental United States)
- We will support H1B transfers for qualified candidates.
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