Staff Replication Development Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Take the lead in the design and development of the replication engine for the Infinia AI Data Platform.

• Concentrate on creating enterprise-level asynchronous replication features that facilitate reliable and secure disaster recovery for extensive data systems.

• Construct high-performance replication pipelines, efficient data synchronization methods, and secure data transfer systems.

• Design and develop multi-threaded asynchronous replication systems with capabilities for parallel streaming.

• Create object-level delta replication with checkpointing and resume functionalities.

• Develop replication engines that support bucket/share-level replication controls.

• Implement secure data transfer mechanisms utilizing TLS 1.3 with mutual authentication.

• Ensure comprehensive data integrity through checksum validation and verification processes.

• Design and implement manual failover workflows tailored for disaster recovery situations.

• Build and maintain REST APIs for replication configuration, management, and automation.

• Develop systems for metadata tracking and change detection to facilitate efficient replication.

• Implement RPO visibility, alerting, and operational insights concerning replication status.

• Contribute to monitoring dashboards that emphasize replication health and performance.

• Ensure that systems are designed for high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability.

• Collaborate with QA teams to enhance performance, resiliency, and scale validation.

• Work alongside backend, security, and platform teams to deliver comprehensive replication workflows.

• Engage in debugging, resolving production issues, and continuously improving replication reliability.

• Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, and mentorship to the engineering team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in distributed systems, storage systems, or backend software engineering.

• Proficient programming skills in one or more languages: C++, Go, Java, or Rust.

• Experience in designing and building data replication systems, data pipelines, or distributed data services.

• In-depth knowledge of distributed systems concepts, including consistency, availability, scalability, and fault tolerance.

• Strong expertise in multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing.

• Familiarity with networking protocols and secure communication (TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS).

• Experience in implementing data integrity mechanisms such as checksums, validation, and consistency checks.

• Proficient in designing and building REST APIs and service-oriented architectures.

• Understanding of checkpointing, failure recovery, and retry mechanisms in distributed systems.

• Basic knowledge of observability concepts, including metrics, logging, and alerting.

• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and system design abilities.

🏝️ Benefits

• A dynamic and driven team environment.

• An opportunity for hands-on involvement.

• Engineering excellence is central to everything we do.