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Applications are becoming increasingly long-running, stateful, autonomous, and distributed. As systems grow more complex, engineers spend more and more time solving the same infrastructure problems:
We don't think every engineering team should have to build those capabilities themselves.
At Restate, we're building
as a foundational infrastructure primitive—making reliability a default property of modern applications instead of an engineering burden.
We're looking for a Backend / Distributed Systems Engineer to help us build and evolve that infrastructure.
You'll work on the core systems that make Restate fast, reliable, and scalable—from distributed execution and state management to storage, messaging, and production infrastructure. You'll have the opportunity to work closely with other engineers building real production systems, giving you a direct view into how the systems you build are used and where they can be improved.
If you enjoy distributed systems, backend infrastructure, and solving difficult engineering problems, we'd love to talk.
Restate (https://restate.dev/ https://restate.dev/) is a lightweight runtime that turns services, workflows, and AI applications into
.
Developers adopt Restate so they can focus on business logic while Restate handles the challenges of building resilient, scalable applications—retries, state, communication, orchestration, and recovery.
Restate itself is built as a
, designed for production scale with its own optimized storage engine. Developers can build Restate applications using TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, Rust, or Ruby.
Today, Restate powers production workloads at
—including Tier 1 financial institutions—as well as fast-growing infrastructure and AI companies building mission-critical systems.
Our team includes the creators of
and engineers who built large-scale distributed systems at Meta. We care deeply about building infrastructure developers genuinely enjoy using, with thoughtful engineering and elegant systems.
As a Backend / Distributed Systems Engineer, you'll work across the systems that make Restate a reliable foundation for modern applications.
You'll design and build backend infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer-facing capabilities that need to operate reliably at production scale. You'll work on problems involving
.
This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll spend the majority of your time
.
You'll also have opportunities to work directly with engineers using Restate in production. Rather than sitting behind a product boundary, you'll see firsthand how teams are building with Restate, help solve challenging technical problems when needed, and bring those insights back into the product.
As of our early engineers, you'll have significant influence over both the technology and the engineering practices we build around it.
Design and implement core backend and distributed systems components
Work on problems involving
Build systems that are low-latency, highly reliable, and capable of operating at significant scale
Improve the performance, scalability, and resilience of the Restate runtime
Contribute to the architecture and evolution of Restate's core platform
Design systems that operate reliably in real-world production environments
Diagnose and solve complex distributed systems and production issues
Improve observability, testing, failure handling, and operational reliability
Work across the boundary between application code and infrastructure when needed
Partner with engineering teams building production systems with Restate
Understand real-world technical challenges and translate them into product improvements
Build reference implementations, integrations, and tooling where useful
Bring feedback from production users directly into engineering and product decisions
Turn recurring technical challenges into reusable systems, tooling, and documentation
Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and architecture decisions
Help define engineering practices as the team and product scale
We're looking for strong backend engineers who are excited by
and want to work on hard technical problems.
Strong backend engineering experience building production systems
Experience with
are particularly relevant
Experience designing, building, and operating production software at scale
Strong understanding of software reliability, performance, and system design
Experience with distributed databases, workflow engines, messaging systems, or other infrastructure software
Experience with Rust or other systems programming languages
Experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
Experience with storage engines, networking, or low-level systems
Experience rearchitecting or migrating production systems
Open-source contributions or experience building developer-facing infrastructure
You enjoy solving difficult technical problems and digging deep into how systems work.
You care about correctness, performance, reliability, and developer experience.
You communicate technical ideas clearly through design docs, architecture discussions, and code.
You have high ownership and thrive in an early-stage environment.
You naturally look for ways to turn-off solutions into reusable systems.
You're comfortable working directly with other engineers to understand and solve real-world technical problems.
Most distributed systems engineers spend their careers improving existing infrastructure.
At Restate, you'll have the opportunity to help
You'll work alongside the creators of Apache Flink and engineers who have built large-scale distributed systems, tackling some of the fundamental problems behind reliable modern applications.
You'll have meaningful ownership over the systems you build, influence the architecture as Restate scales, and see your work running in production at companies building mission-critical applications.
And because we're still early, you'll have an unusually direct connection between the engineers building with Restate, the problems they're encountering, and the software we build to solve them.
If you're excited about distributed systems, infrastructure, and building something foundational from the ground up, this is a rare opportunity to do that at the beginning of a new category.
— San Francisco Bay Area preferred
are particularly relevant
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What is the salary for this role?
The salary for this role is USD 220,000 - 260,000/yr per annum.
What experience is required?
This position is open to freshers and experienced candidates.
Is this position still open?
Yes, currently active and accepting applications.
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