Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: New York.
Location as listed by the employer: “Hybrid: New York, NY”
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About this role
Cape is hiring for a Lead Distributed Systems Engineer role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.
Requirements
- Distributed systems depth: You've designed and operated distributed systems in production and have real scar tissue around replication, consistency, and partition-related failure modes. You can reason about a system's g…
- Event-driven architecture: Experience with Kafka, SQS, MQTT, RabbitMQ, Flink, or Spark in production. You understand delivery semantics, ordering, and replay well enough to reason about them under adverse conditions rat…
- Correctness under pressure: You've worked in environments where losing data was not an acceptable outcome, and you've been in situations where a customer needed something shipped and the honest answer was that the desig…
- Engineering leadership: You have led engineers as a manager, a tech lead, or both. You can point to specific people you've grown and specific technical bets you owned end to end.
- Communication that moves things forward: You can both explain a consistency guarantee to a customer who wants a feature now and an operational reality to an engineer who's optimizing for the wrong constraint.
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