HighLevel
HighLevel
201 – 500 Employees
ConsultingLogisticsSaaS
HighLevel is a SaaS company that develops an all-in-one marketing and sales platform for businesses and marketers. Its software brings together lead capture, appointment scheduling, pipeline management, websites, funnels, landing pages, and automated follow-up through phone, SMS, email, and social channels. HighLevel also provides API integrations, membership and course-management tools, and white-label options that let businesses offer the platform under their own brand. For job seekers, the company’s profile reflects work centered on building and supporting a broad business-automation product used across consulting, logistics, and other service-oriented organizations.

Staff Distributed Systems Engineer – India Remote

HighLevel is seeking a staff engineer to strengthen resilient, large-scale services for its AI-powered business platform. The role spans Node.js, Go, Kubernetes, GCP, distributed storage, and end-to-end system reliability.

Description

  • Design, build, and scale backend services and frontend interfaces for the Threads & Composer experience in HighLevel Conversations
  • Lead backend and API architecture, data flows, performance, reliability, throughput, and correctness at scale
  • Own the Vue 3 user interface layer from development through maintenance
  • Protect the architectural health of a billion-scale distributed system across failure modes, capacity constraints, consistency guarantees, and more than 50 deployments
  • Review critical-path designs and guide architecture decisions across teams
  • Find and resolve single points of failure, unbounded queues, missing idempotency, thundering-herd risks, and data-loss windows
  • Prototype high-risk architecture changes, address major incidents, and collaborate on complex cross-team defects
  • Increase system resilience with graceful degradation, backpressure, isolation boundaries, and capacity models designed for 10%+ monthly growth
  • Strengthen engineering practices through design reviews, post-mortems, and reusable technical patterns
  • Define safe practices for using AI-assisted engineering on critical systems
  • Develop with Node.js/TypeScript, Go, GKE, GCP Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Redis, MongoDB, Firestore, ClickHouse, and Elasticsearch
  • Improve Workflows critical paths through clear ownership, capacity planning, tested failure scenarios, and fewer incidents

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of engineering experience with substantial hands-on ownership of large-scale distributed systems
  • Demonstrated sole responsibility for a production system through real-world failures
  • Deep expertise in queueing and asynchronous architectures, delivery semantics, ordering, backpressure, idempotency, and exactly-once or at-least-once delivery
  • Strong command of multiple SQL and NoSQL storage systems, consistency models, and indexing at scale
  • Expertise with Redis or a comparable in-memory system, including behavior under memory pressure and network partitions
  • Production experience operating Kubernetes at scale, including resource limits, autoscaling, and node-pool failures
  • Exceptional ability to communicate designs through documentation, diagrams, and root-cause analyses
  • Proficiency in Node.js and/or Go for prototyping proposals and delivering critical-path fixes
  • Comparable experience with hundreds of services or thousands of instances processing billions of daily events is strongly preferred
  • Experience with AI agents, GCP-native services, launching systems from 0 to 1, and hardening mature platforms is considered a bonus

Benefits

  • Work in a global, remote-first organization
  • HighLevel is an equal opportunity employer
  • A voluntary demographic information process keeps responses separate from applications and excludes them from hiring decisions
  • A privacy policy is available for review

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