# Backend | Distributed Systems Engineer at Restate

- Company: Restate
- What the company does: Restate is a low-latency application runtime with durable execution, keyed state, queues, RPC, timers, flow control, and operational control in one binary. Backed by Redpoint.
- Company website: https://restate.dev/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $220K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/restate/a0a8b551-3d80-4542-a20f-1c7c161ca6c5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/restate-backend-distributed-systems-engineer/

## About the role

As a Backend / Distributed Systems Engineer, you'll work across the systems that make Restate a reliable foundation for modern applications. You'll design and build backend infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer-facing capabilities that need to operate reliably at production scale. You'll work on problems involving distributed execution, state, storage, messaging, concurrency, fault tolerance, and recovery .

## What they're looking for

- We're looking for strong backend engineers who are excited by distributed systems and infrastructure and want to work on hard technical problems
- Strong backend engineering experience building production systems
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or other systems involving concurrency, state, messaging, and failure handling
- Strong experience in at least one backend language, Rust, Go, Java, C++, or similar are particularly relevant
- Experience designing, building, and operating production software at scale
- Strong understanding of software reliability, performance, and system design

Tags: Engineering