Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

hireVouch is seeking a Software Engineer to work on the distributed systems that power its customer-facing syncing engine. The role focuses on distributed systems, performance optimization, troubleshooting, scalability, reliability, real-time data streaming, personalization APIs, and multi-cloud, multi-region infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• You will own and deliver projects from start to finish
• You will work directly with customers to solve their hardest scaling problems
• You will have a lot of influence over what we work on as a team and company
• Sync Speed: Customers want to sync a lot of data to important destinations like Facebook and Snapchat, which requires us to analyze every part of our syncing process and find where we can optimize to sync data more quickly
• Streaming Syncing: We currently sync data from sources in batch only, but envision a world where we also do syncs in real-time and support streaming sources like webhooks and queues
• Scalability and Reliability: As part of our rapid growth, we’re always evaluating current future bottlenecks in scaling and reliability, and architecting for the next order of magnitude of growth
• Personalization API: Our APII product provides a low latency caching layer on top of data warehouses that enable customers to use their data warehouse for real-time personalization use cases with <30ms p90 response times with QPS in the millions
• Multi-Region and Multi-Cloud: Supporting our multi-region and multi-cloud backend, including extending it to launch in new regions to support data residency requirements of our global customer base
• You’ve built syncing engines that process and move terabytes of data per day in a scalable way
• You’ve created event collection or data streaming services that power company critical systems
• You’ve owned systems that have undergone orders of magnitude of growth and helped them scale accordingly

Requirements:

• You are an engineer with a passion for solving hard technical problems that generate real value for customers
• You're motivated by high ownership and are comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment
• You have experience and comfort with distributed systems and high-scale systems or the ability and desire to build this experience quickly
• You've built syncing engines that process and move terabytes of data per day in a scalable way
• You've created event collection or data streaming services that power company critical systems
• You've owned systems that have undergone orders of magnitude of growth and helped them scale accordingly
• You have relevant skills and are a fast learner who is excited to take on the challenges we face