Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Emerald Advantage Concepts LLC is hiring senior distributed systems engineers to join their Core Team responsible for scheduling, planning, and executing data syncs across the platform. The role involves designing and operating systems that handle terabytes of data daily, support millions of low-latency API calls, and operate across a multi-cloud, multi-region infrastructure. The position offers high impact, autonomy, and a stable engineering environment with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and optimize every stage of the syncing pipeline to push throughput and latency to new limits
- Extend the batch-only model to support real-time streaming sources such as webhooks, queues, and Kafka
- Architect for the next order of magnitude of growth across data volume, concurrency, and global footprint
- Enhance a caching layer that delivers <30ms p90 responses at millions of QPS
- Support and expand a multi-cloud backend, including launching new regions to meet global data residency requirements
Skills
- 7+ years of backend or distributed systems engineering experience
- Strong systems design fundamentals (ideally from a top 30 CS program)
- Experience owning systems that scaled by orders of magnitude
- Experience with high‑scale systems: Kafka or other message queues, Kubernetes, Docker, Large SQL/OLAP systems, Event collection or streaming pipelines
- Experience building or owning systems that move terabytes of data per day
- Experience building 01 systems, not just maintaining existing ones
- Exceptional communication and first‑principles reasoning
- Experience at a high‑growth startup (Series B–E)
- Experience with multi‑cloud or multi‑region architectures
- Experience building syncing engines, schedulers, or distributed execution frameworks
Benefits
- Competitive equity
- Full benefits
- Visa sponsorship available
- Remote‑first across US & Canada
- Flexible hours — many engineers work non‑traditional schedules
- No micromanagement, no busywork, no unnecessary process
- Almost no after‑hours paging
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