24 days ago
India (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve distributed data architectures for significant growth in traffic, data volume, and engineering complexity.
- Develop reusable infrastructure components, frameworks, and platform capabilities for engineering teams.
- Lead large-scale initiatives involving data distribution, sharding, replication, migrations, and architectural modernization.
- Influence database technology choices, architectural patterns, and long-term infrastructure direction.
- Improve scalability, resource efficiency, reliability, performance, and infrastructure costs.
- Design systems that remain available and resilient under high throughput, infrastructure failures, and changing workloads.
- Establish engineering standards and reusable solutions that eliminate recurring problems across teams.
- Lead through technical influence by turning company-level challenges into executable technical programs.
Requirements
- 9+ years of strong software engineering experience, including significant hands-on experience with distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or large-scale data platforms.
- Demonstrated Staff-level technical impact and experience building production infrastructure rather than only operating or administering it.
- Experience architecting systems handling multi-terabyte datasets and 30K–50K+ operations per second or comparable distributed workloads.
- Deep understanding of partitioning, sharding, replication, consistency, concurrency, fault tolerance, and data distribution.
- Strong experience with relational and NoSQL database architectures and their scalability characteristics and trade-offs.
- Experience leading complex architectural initiatives involving multiple systems and engineering teams.
- Ability to identify systemic technical problems and design organization-wide infrastructure improvements.
- Strong technical judgment, ownership, and ability to influence architectural decisions without formal authority.
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL and distributed database technologies such as MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, or similar systems is highly relevant.
- Experience with distributed SQL, search infrastructure, analytical databases, or other large-scale storage systems is advantageous.
Benefits
- Remote-first organization with team members across more than 10 countries.
Tech Stack
About HighLevel
HighLevel builds a white-label, all-in-one marketing and CRM platform for agencies, entrepreneurs, and SMBs, combining lead capture, automation, email/SMS, websites and funnels, payments, and appointment management. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Dallas, it is privately held and raised $60M in private equity funding in 2024. The subscription SaaS serves customers in 150+ countries and is used by over one million businesses.