Posted 13 months ago
Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
@ hireVouch
Remote in Canada
Overview
hireVouch is hiring a Software Engineer for Distributed Systems to work on the syncing engine that moves large volumes of customer data, including the Personalization API and multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure. The work covers sync speed, streaming syncs, scalability and reliability, with high ownership and direct customer work.
Responsibilities:
- Optimize the speed of syncing customer data to destinations
- Build streaming and real-time syncing from webhooks and queues
- Architect scalability and reliability for rapid growth
- Support multi-region and multi-cloud backend infrastructure
- Work directly with customers on scaling problems
Requirements summary:
- Experience with distributed and high-scale systems, or strong ability to learn them quickly
- Experience building syncing engines or data streaming services
- Experience scaling systems through orders of magnitude of growth
- Strong performance optimization and troubleshooting skills
- Comfort in a fast-paced startup environment
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- Employer posting date
- 2025-10-03
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-02
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Job details
| Department | Software development |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
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Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the often-employed aggressive methods typical of the recruitment industry, our focus is placed largely on referral-based networking. Getting it right really matters to us. Let us leverage our network of talent that has already been vouched for by leading professionals in the industry to help your business grow. Services Offered Contingency and Retained Search Here at hireVouch we focus on sourcing best-in-class candidates for rewarding positions in Canada and the US. We have extensive expertise in Contingency, Retained and Temporary placement, primarily within the IT sector. On-Site Search Assistance We have a trusted network of HR and search professionals who can provide on-site search services to help fulfill immediate needs as well as help train internal staff in finding the highest quality talent Company Marketing Strategy We know how competitive the job market can truly be and how important it is to have a strategy to attract talent. At hireVouch we have extensive expertise in helping companies better market themselves. We can provide the tools and knowledge that will assist you in making your business a highly attractive place to work. Developing a company marketing strategy is key to hiring the talent you need to grow.
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- People associated on LinkedIn
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- 215 Spadina Avenue, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7, CA
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- hireVouch
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Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2016 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 175 |
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About the Role
We are looking for a distributed systems engineer to work on the systems that power the syncing engine our customers and other engineering teams rely on. This presents an exciting challenge where you can apply your expertise in distributed systems, performance optimization, and troubleshooting to push the boundaries of what is possible and meaningfully improve our ability to move massive amounts of customer data. This role also provides a unique opportunity to work on a multi-cloud and multi-region infrastructure that supports a global customer base.
We believe in enabling our engineers to do their best work for our customers by giving them extremely high levels of ownership and autonomy. This comes in different forms: you will own and deliver projects from start to finish, you will work directly with customers to solve their hardest scaling problems, and you will have a lot of influence over what we work on as a team and company.
Some of the problems we’ll be working on include:
- Sync Speed: Customers want to sync a lot of data to important destinations like Facebook and Snapchat, which requires us to analyze every part of our syncing process and find where we can optimize to sync data more quickly
- Streaming Syncing: We currently sync data from sources in batch only, but envision a world where we also do syncs in real-time and support streaming sources like webhooks and queues
- Scalability and Reliability: As part of our rapid growth, we’re always evaluating current future bottlenecks in scaling and reliability, and architecting for the next order of magnitude of growth
- Personalization API: Our APII product provides a low latency caching layer on top of data warehouses that enable customers to use their data warehouse for real-time personalization use cases with <30ms p90 response times with QPS in the millions
- Multi-Region and Multi-Cloud: Supporting our multi-region and multi-cloud backend, including extending it to launch in new regions to support data residency requirements of our global customer base
We are looking for talented, intellectually curious, and motivated individuals who are interested in tackling the problems above.
About You
You are an engineer with a passion for solving hard technical problems that generate real value for customers. You’re motivated by high ownership and are comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment.
You have experience and comfort with distributed systems and high-scale systems or the ability and desire to build this experience quickly. This experience can take different forms:
- You’ve built syncing engines that process and move terabytes of data per day in a scalable way
- You’ve created event collection or data streaming services that power company critical systems
- You’ve owned systems that have undergone orders of magnitude of growth and helped them scale accordingly
- You have relevant skills and are a fast learner who is excited to take on the challenges we face
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