Staff Software Engineer – L4
DDN
CloudDistributed SystemsKubernetesNFS
Staff Software Engineer – Kora Orchestration
Confluent
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Lead
Tech Stack
CloudDistributed SystemsGoJavaScala
About the role
- Drive the end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-quarter technical projects and critical infrastructure components from concept to production, setting a high bar for operational excellence, scalability, reliability, and security.
- Act as a primary technical escalation point for complex, elusive production issues and architectural challenges. Proactively identify systemic weaknesses and drive large-scale refactoring or architectural changes to prevent future recurrence.
- Exert influence across multiple teams and organizational boundaries (e.g., product, support, engineering) to align technical direction, mitigate cross-cutting risks, and ensure cohesive, high-quality solution delivery.
- Serve as a technical voice of the customer, anticipating future needs and translating ambiguous, high-level business problems into clear, executable technical strategies and architectures that drive significant customer value and product adoption.
- Act as a force multiplier by actively mentoring and coaching engineers and elevating the overall technical acumen and best practices across the organization.
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in designing, building, and operating large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems (or equivalent expertise).
- Deep, expert-level understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including consensus protocols (e.g., Raft/Paxos), consistency models (e.g., strong, eventual), fault-tolerance, and high-availability architecture.
- Experience building and operating large-scale systems in the Cloud.
- Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc.).
- Demonstrated history of mentoring engineers and driving significant improvement in engineering practices and operational rigor across multiple teams.
- Proficiency in Java, Scala, C/C++, Go or other statically typed languages.
Benefits
- Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
- We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
distributed systemsconsensus protocolsRaftPaxosconsistency modelsfault-tolerancehigh-availability architectureJavaScalaC/C++
Soft skills
mentoringcoachinginfluenceproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationoperational excellencestrategic thinkingcustomer advocacyleadership
