Staff Engineer – Distributed Data Systems & Infrastructure
HighLevel (company site, opens in a new tab)9+ yrsRemoteDirect career pageEst. 35–60 LPA
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Job description
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About This Role
- Design and evolve distributed data architectures that support significant growth in traffic, data volume, and engineering complexity.
- Build reusable infrastructure components and platform capabilities enabling scalable systems across engineering teams.
- Lead architectural initiatives to improve scalability, reliability, performance, infrastructure costs, and influence company-wide technical strategy.
Minimum Requirements
- 9+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated impact at Staff Engineer level.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and building distributed data systems handling multi-terabyte datasets and 30K–50K+ operations per second or comparable workloads.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, relational and NoSQL database architectures including design, scalability, and trade-offs.
- Work Experience Required: 9+ years
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Proven ability to take ownership of challenging infrastructure problems requiring multi-team coordination and architectural change.
- Experienced in designing or significantly evolving distributed architectures and building infrastructure used across multiple engineering teams.
- Skilled at influencing technical strategy and decisions through strong technical judgment and architectural expertise without formal authority.