Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Pricing, Catalog and Offers

Accountabilities:

• • Build and evolve distributed systems: Design, develop, and operate resilient, highly scalable, low-latency services supporting pricing, product catalogs, promotional offers, and subscription transactions at global scale.
  • Deliver commerce capabilities: Partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to translate business opportunities into scalable technical solutions that support acquisition, retention, and new commerce experiences.
  • Solve complex distributed systems challenges: Address race conditions, consistency guarantees, distributed transactions, throughput optimization, and other correctness and scalability challenges across critical services.
  • Strengthen platform infrastructure: Evolve foundational systems to support an expanding commerce ecosystem, including advertising, gaming, live streaming, and other emerging experiences.
  • Own production reliability: Take end-to-end responsibility for the reliability, availability, and performance of Tier-0 services, including participation in production on-call and incident response.
  • Lead complex engineering initiatives: Take projects from initial concept through implementation and delivery, proactively identifying opportunities to improve critical systems and engineering practices.
  • Translate ambiguity into solutions: Work from broad or evolving business objectives to define clear, maintainable, and scalable technical architectures.
  • Collaborate across functions: Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, risks, and system behavior effectively with both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

  Requirements:

  • Senior distributed systems experience: 10+ years of experience building and operating resilient, high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in production environments.
  • Strong systems expertise: Demonstrated experience solving difficult correctness and reliability problems involving race conditions, eventual consistency, distributed transactions, and high-throughput architectures.
  • Platform mindset: Ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into practical, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.
  • Engineering leadership: Proven ability to take extreme ownership of a technical domain and lead complex engineering projects from inception through production.
  • Cross-functional communication: Strong collaboration skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts and trade-offs clearly to product, design, data, and business partners.
  • Programming expertise: Professional experience with one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, C#, or Scala.
  • Distributed technology experience: Familiarity with technologies such as Kafka, Elasticsearch, Hive, AWS, Presto, Spark SQL, or Apache Flink is highly valued.
  • API development: Experience designing and implementing gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful APIs.
  • Data infrastructure: Experience with SQL and NoSQL, including multi-region data stores such as Cassandra, Amazon Aurora, or Memcached.
  • Operational excellence: Comfort with production on-call responsibilities, incident response, and maintaining highly critical services.
  • Education: A Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.

  Benefits:

  • Annual compensation: $388,000–$619,000 USD, with the range varying based on location, job family, background, skills, and experience.
  • Compensation flexibility: Annual compensation is generally structured as salary and stock options, allowing employees to choose how much compensation they receive in each form.
  • Health coverage: Comprehensive health plans, including support for physical and mental health.
  • Retirement: 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching.
  • Equity: Stock option program.
  • Financial and wellness support: Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), disability programs, and life and serious injury benefits.
  • Family benefits: Family-forming benefits and paid leave programs.
  • Time off: Flexible time off for full-time salaried employees.
  • Inclusive environment: A culture focused on freedom, responsibility, diversity, inclusion, and meaningful collaboration.
  • Flexible work: Fully remote position within the United States.