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# Staff Distributed Systems Engineer

- **Company:** PLATFORM RESTAURANT GROUP, LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $245,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), JIRA, Databases, Continuous Integration, Github, HAProxy, JSON, PostgreSQL, Metadata, MySQL, Routing, Redis, System Programming, ReactJS, Express.js, Caching, Core Data, Real Time Data, Apache Kafka, Software Version Control, Jenkins
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/sr-staff-distributed-systems-engineer-platform-storage-kentik-2-7768575

## About the Role

* Deep Distributed Systems Expertise: You have a proven track record of designing, building, and scaling high-throughput, concurrent data pipelines
 * Systems Programming Fluent: You love working in languages optimized for performance, specifically Go, C, or Rust
 * Storage Layer Knowledge: You have experience working closely with (or building) Timeseries Databases, object storage, or distributed filesystems
 * Architectural Pragmatism: You know how to balance cutting-edge engineering with operational stability and business needs
 * Strong Communication Skills: You can articulate complex technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineering peers and non-technical stakeholders
 * Growth Mindset: You have a passion to grow personally and actively contribute to a high-performing team culture

## Description

As a Sr Staff Engineer, you will co-own the technical vision for our storage services. This is a role with high autonomy, high visibility, and deep technical impact. You will:

 * Help define and lead the execution of a multi-year technical roadmap for Storage, pushing the boundaries of industry-leading query speeds
 * Design tiered storage strategies (Hot/Warm/Cold), TTL-based data eviction, and optimization strategies that handle massive, real-time data influx.
 * Work closely with product, support, and other engineering teams to drive platform-wide storage standards, while leveling up the engineers around you.
 * Thrive in our remote-first, highly collaborative culture where independence and clear communication are celebrated, * We use Node.js + Express for application serving, and React as our primary UI framework
 * Tooling: JS and Python for tooling and scripting.
 * Infrastructure & Messaging: Kafka for streaming pipelines, Redis for caching, and Postgres/MySQL for metadata.
 * APIs & Routing: REST/JSON and gRPC endpoints via HAProxy and Envoy.
 * Operations: GitHub for source control, Jenkins for CI/CD, and Jira for project tracking.


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