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 integral 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

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