Weekday (YC W21)Remote
Engineering Manager
United States
Full Time
1 hour ago
$15,000,000 - $30,000,000 INR
No H1B
Key skills
ApacheCyber SecurityDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaRustAnalyticsPerformance Optimization
About this role
Role Overview
- Lead the design and delivery of large-scale backend and distributed systems
- Ensure high-performance architecture and strong engineering standards
- Mentor engineers and drive technical direction
- Deliver scalable, production-grade solutions
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building backend or distributed systems
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Flink
- Advanced programming expertise in Java
- Working experience with Rust in production environments
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, streaming architectures, and data pipelines
- Proven experience building high-throughput, low-latency systems
- Strong fundamentals in system design, concurrency, scalability, and performance optimization
- Prior experience in cybersecurity, threat detection, observability, or data security domains
- Experience processing high-volume event streams such as logs, telemetry, or network data
- Familiarity with Kafka, stateful stream processing, and real-time analytics
- Experience working in high-growth or early-stage startup environments
- Demonstrated track record of taking products from concept (0 → 1) to scale, or significantly optimizing existing systems
- Lead and mentor engineering teams while maintaining technical depth
- Drive architectural decisions and establish engineering best practices
- Ensure scalability, reliability, and performance across distributed systems
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Collaborate cross-functionally to align technical solutions with business objectives
- Java
- Apache Flink
- Rust
- Distributed Systems Architecture
- Streaming Data Platforms
Tech Stack
- Apache
- Cyber Security
- Distributed Systems
- Java
- Kafka
- Rust