Cape
Lead Distributed Systems Engineer
$250K–$325K
Hybrid: New York, NY · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated.
About the job
Leads the team designing and building a secure, reliable edge data distribution system that synchronizes subscriber state across private 5G networks, including nodes that remain offline for extended periods.
What you'll do
- Set the system architecture, technical direction, and guarantees for data propagation, reconciliation, consistency, conflict resolution, and security.
- Lead and contribute hands-on to engineering; set the roadmap and recruit, develop, and retain distributed systems engineers.
- Work with customers and cross-functional partners to translate deployment needs into solutions and guide product development.
What they ask for
- Production experience designing and operating distributed systems, including replication, consistency, and partition-related failure modes.
- Production experience with event-driven architecture and at least one of Kafka, SQS, MQTT, RabbitMQ, Flink, or Spark.
- Experience handling situations where data loss is unacceptable and making and explaining sound delivery tradeoffs.
- Engineering leadership as a manager, tech lead, or both, with examples of developing people and owning technical decisions.
Nice to have
- Software for customer hardware, on-premises, air-gapped, or similarly disconnected environments; backend systems for mobile devices or edge compute at scale.
- Logical replication, CDC, multi-region or active-active database architectures; telecommunications experience or willingness to learn; government or defense customers.
Pay
$250,000-$325,000 USD base salary (New York, New York); equity amount not stated
Tools
Kafka, SQS, MQTT, RabbitMQ, Flink, Spark
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