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Software Engineer

Santa Clara (Remote)fulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join the Control Plane team to architect and build scalable backend services powering a petabyte-scale AI data platform. You'll design distributed microservices, craft robust APIs, and embed security and observability across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments supporting mission-critical workloads.

What you'll do

  • Design and develop scalable, high-performance distributed backend services and microservices for the control plane
  • Build and own APIs (REST/gRPC) for centralized management across multi-region hybrid environments with versioning and lifecycle governance
  • Architect resilient systems with strong consistency, fault tolerance, and high availability at petabyte scale with minimal downtime
  • Implement policy-driven orchestration, infrastructure-as-code integration, RBAC, and multi-tenancy capabilities
  • Instrument systems with comprehensive observability (logs, metrics, traces) and support incident correlation and root cause analysis
  • Design secure-by-design architecture with authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit logging; collaborate on compliance

What they're looking for

  • Backend/distributed systems engineering (3+ years)
  • Microservices architecture design and implementation
  • Modern backend languages (Go, C++, Java, Python, or equivalent)
  • API design and implementation (REST and/or gRPC)
  • Distributed systems concepts (CAP theorem, consistency models)
  • Cloud-native and containerized environments (Kubernetes)
  • Security principles (authentication, authorization, encryption)
  • CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
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Likely interview questions

  • Describe a distributed system you designed that had to handle consistency and high availability trade-offs—how did you approach it?
  • Walk us through your experience designing and versioning APIs at scale; how do you handle backward compatibility and deprecation?
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