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 global 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 flexibility for occasional early or late meetings across general teams

- Clear communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional environments

- English proficiency: B2 Upper-Intermediate

Nice to have

- Go Language proficiency for contributing to multi-language services

- Python experience for tooling, automation, or service components

- Java experience for onboarding to existing backend services

- Linux expertise for performance analysis and production debugging
- gRPC expertise including schema design and backward-compatible evolution

We offer

- International projects with top brands

- Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers

- Healthcare benefits

- Employee financial programs

- Paid time off and sick leave

- Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses

- Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses

- Global career opportunities

- Volunteer and community involvement opportunities

- EPAM Employee Groups

- Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn

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