We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to build and operate high-performance distributed services that interact with complex storage systems. You will design resilient systems, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate across time zones; apply now to help deliver reliable, scalable platforms.

Responsibilities

Design scalable, reliable backend services that integrate with distributed storage systems
Build high-performance Rust components for distributed systems workloads
Develop and maintain RPC-based services using gRPC or similar frameworks
Implement concurrency-safe, asynchronous service logic and performance-critical paths
Define system architecture for high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability
Troubleshoot production incidents, debug complex failures, and restore service health
Provide on-call support and improve operational tooling and runbooks
Collaborate with general teams and align on core working hours across time zones
Evaluate consistency, replication, sharding, and resharding strategies for storage components




Integrate cloud-native patterns such as service discovery, service mesh, and IPv6 networking
Write clear technical documentation and share design decisions with stakeholders

Requirements

3+ years of Rust backend development experience
Strong C++ knowledge for understanding and interfacing with low-level systems
Hands-on distributed storage systems experience building, designing, or operating storage components
Strong concurrent programming experience with async patterns, multithreading, and synchronization
Proven RPC services experience using gRPC or Apache Thrift
Cloud-native architecture experience with service discovery and service mesh tools
Solid system design skills for scalable, highly available distributed services
Strong data structures and algorithms knowledge including trees, graphs, hashes, and dynamic programming
Operational support experience including on-call rotations and production debugging
Schedule flexibi

📌 Senior Software Engineer – Backend (Argentina)
🏢 EPAM Systems
📍 Argentina