Senior Backend Engineer, Distributed Systems

About the Role We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to architect and build Moveworks' core infrastructure and foundational services. You will closely collaborate with machine learning, search, product, data, and frontend teams to shape the infrastructure roadmap and lead critical projects that enable scalable, reliable systems. What You'll Do

• Architect and implement core infrastructure and foundational functionalities such as distributed key-value store, schema-less data store, authentication and authorization, event streaming, distributed configuration management and hot reloading, rate limiting and circuit breaking, feature flags and A/B testing, traffic capture and replay.
• Improve observability and reliability by building and enhancing distributed logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure.
• Define methodologies and metrics to measure performance of microservices and product functionalities, identify bottlenecks, and improve performance and scalability.
• Regularly deliver deadline-sensitive work that is interdependent with other engineering teams. What We're Looking For
• Experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining backend distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Python/Golang/Java/C++.
• Experience with containers/Docker and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience with open source technologies such as Kafka, Elasticsearch or Opensearch, Istio.
• Desire to work at a startup pace in a small company with a high degree of ownership.
• Experience solving for performance, optimization, scalability, latency, and monitoring.
• Strong motivation, gumption, and an appetite for continuous, incremental changes and completing challenging projects fast.
• BS+ in computer science or a related field.
• High level of curiosity about engineering outside of your immediate discipline and an incessant desire to learn. Nice to Have
• Experience with distributed systems at scale in production environments. Compensation & Benefits
• Salary and benefits not disclosed in the posting.