Infrastructure Software Engineer, Metadata Core

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential cloud storage organization seeking an Infrastructure Software Engineer to join their Metadata Core team in Poland. Our client operates large-scale distributed databases that serve as the foundation for their entire service ecosystem, supporting millions of users worldwide.

In this role, you'll design and maintain mission-critical database infrastructure that must meet stringent requirements for latency, durability, and transactional consistency. This is a high-impact position where your work will directly enable fast, reliable data access across hundreds of internal services.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain distributed database systems providing low-latency, strongly consistent data access
• Implement and optimize replication, consensus, and caching mechanisms to meet availability and performance goals
• Operate production systems, including participating in on-call rotation, ensuring high availability and data durability
• Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to assess current and future use cases, supporting development of mid- to long-term roadmaps
• Contribute to system design reviews, postmortems, and reliability improvements
• Write high-quality, efficient code in Go and Rust for performance-critical systems
• Address operational issues including bugs and outages as needed to maintain system stability

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong expertise in distributed systems fundamentals including replication, consistency, partitioning, and fault tolerance
• Experience building database platforms, distributed databases, storage systems, or large-scale database infrastructure
• Proficiency in Go, Rust, C++ or similar systems languages
• Familiarity with consensus and coordination systems (e.g. Raft, Paxos, ZooKeeper, etcd)
• Experience operating production services and participating in on-call rotations
• Strong debugging and performance analysis skills
• Excellent collaboration and communication abilities across teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building distributed databases or storage systems
• Deep understanding of data structures used in storage systems (e.g. LSM trees, B-trees, Hash Indexes)
• Experience operating database systems (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra)
• Experience with distributed caching systems such as Memcached or Redis
• Track record improving reliability and performance in high-scale data systems
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to identify needs and incorporate them into technical roadmaps
• Interest in deepening distributed systems expertise and expanding technical leadership

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your background and conduct an initial screening to ensure strong alignment with the role requirements. We'll then coordinate your submission to our client and guide you through their interview process. Please do not contact the client directly, as all communication should flow through our recruitment team to ensure the best experience for everyone involved.

Pay

Pay via Get A Job.ai has not been disclosed for this position. Compensation will be discussed during the screening process.

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