Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Rokt • New York, NY

82d • $200,000 - $315,000

About The Position

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) to join our team in New York City. You will architect, build, and scale backend services that power critical systems across Rokt's ecommerce platform. You’ll work on systems that demand low latency, high throughput, and rock-solid reliability—while leveraging AI tools to accelerate development, improve resilience, and increase autonomy. As an engineer, you will drive projects from design through delivery, mentoring others and contributing to our engineering best practices. You’ll partner cross-functionally with Product, ML, and SRE to ensure performance and scalability as Rokt continues to scale globally.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience building production-grade distributed systems at scale.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, or similar backend languages, and strong understanding of concurrency, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience designing APIs.
• Strong command of system observability, incident response, and fault-tolerant architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud-native stacks (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) and CI/CD tooling.
• Effective communicator and mentor; able to lead discussions and influence design decisions.
• Excited by Rokt’s AI-first culture, and eager to raise the bar across architecture, delivery, and engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed systems and backend APIs that scale to billions of transactions per year.
• Own architectural decisions and contribute to system design reviews and incident root cause analyses.
• Drive performance optimizations and refactors to improve system reliability, latency, and cost.
• Leverage AI/ML frameworks and tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Datadog AI, etc.) to speed up delivery and reduce toil.
• Mentor junior engineers and set technical direction for the team on scalability and observability best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering delivery with business objectives.

Benefits

• Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company.
• Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office.
• Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and great health benefits for you and your dependents.
• Dog-friendly office.
• Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.).
• Work with the greatest talent in town.
• See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London.
• We believe we’re better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees