Distributed Systems Engineer (C++)

Job Responsibilities

• Design,implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerantdistributed systems for graph data.
• Tackleperformance and scalability challenges, optimizing data ingestion, indexing,and query pipelines for low-latency and high-throughput requirements. Conductsystematic profiling and tuning.
• Build,optimize, and operate our core vector embedding infrastructure to enableefficient nearest neighbor search at scale.
• Proactivelydiagnose, debug, and resolve complex issues across the entire data stack, fromperformance bottlenecks and data inconsistencies to system failures. Lead rootcause analysis for production incidents and implement preventive measures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’sdegree in Computer Science or a related field

•5 years of relevant experience

Skills and Knowledge

Deep, hands-on experience with one or morevector databases or similarity search libraries.

• Provenexperience designing and working with any graph database and query languageslike Cypher
• Solidunderstanding of distributed systems concepts: consensus, replication,sharding, and fault tolerance.
• Solidprogramming fundamentals; Expert-level proficiency in modern C++, with deepunderstanding of language features and object-oriented design.
• Understandingof distributed systems principles and the ability to evaluate trade-offs insystem design.
• Familiarwith Kafka, ETCD or similar technologies;
• Proactiveand collaborative team player with strong communication skills.
• Opento adopting AI-assisted engineering practices ("vibe coding") toimprove productivity and code quality.

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