StatusNeo - Erlang Developer - Distributed Systems

Description : Erlang Developer Distributed Systems Role Overview : We are looking for high ownership engineers who do more than write code. This role requires individuals who can understand complex system problems end- to-end, take accountability for outcomes, and drive solutions from design to production. You will work on large-scale, distributed, real-time backend systems where correctness, resilience, and performance directly impact live operations. Success in this role demands strong technical judgment, system-level thinking, and the ability to operate with ambiguity. What This Role Expects (Beyond Coding) : - Ability to understand problem statements deeply, ask the right questions, and propose technically sound solutions - Ownership of services across their full lifecycle : design , implementation , deployment , monitoring , incident resolution - Proactive identification of system risks, performance bottlenecks, and failure scenarios - Willingness to make trade-offs, defend design decisions, and improve systems iteratively - Comfort operating in production-first environments where uptime and correctness matter Key Responsibilities : - Design, build, and own distributed backend services using Erlang/OTP - Model complex workflows using concurrency and message-passing primitives - Design and maintain robust supervision hierarchies and fault-recovery strategies - Build systems handling thousands of concurrent processes with predictable behavior - Ensure production readiness : 1. Observability (logging, metrics, alerts) 2. Graceful degradation and recovery 3. Safe deployment strategies - Debug and resolve production incidents, including distributed failures - Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams on system interfaces and behavior - Continuously improve system reliability, performance, and maintainability Required Technical Skills : Core Expertise : - Erlang with strong production experience - OTP Framework - GenServer, Supervisor, FSM behaviors - ETS and Mnesia - Distributed Erlang - Clustering - Inter-node communication - Handling partial failures and network partitions Systems & Architecture : - Distributed systems design - Actor-model concurrency - Event-driven and asynchronous architectures - Real-time / near-real-time systems Platform & Infrastructure : - Linux (debugging, profiling, system behavior analysis) - Networking fundamentals (TCP/UDP, REST, gRPC) - Messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar) Datastores : - In-memory: ETS, Redis - Persistent: PostgreSQL or equivalent - Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) - CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting pipelines What We Value in Candidates : - Engineers who take responsibility, not just tickets - Ability to reason about failure modes, not just happy paths - Strong debugging skills in distributed, stateful systems - Comfort working with long-running, always-on services - Clear communication and technical articulation - Bias toward making systems work in production Nice to Have : - Experience with automation, robotics, or control systems - Experience running 24x7 high-availability systems - Cloud infrastructure experience ( GCP ) Experience Expectations : - 4+ years of backend or distributed systems development - 3+ years of hands-on Erlang/OTP experience Summary : This role is not for engineers who : - Only implement predefined logic - Avoid production ownership - Prefer isolated problems with narrow scope This role is for engineers who : - Think in systems - Own outcomes - Turn complex problems into working, reliable solutions Description : Erlang Developer Distributed Systems Role Overview : We are looking for high ownership engineers who do more than write code. This role requires individuals who can understand complex system problems end- to-end, take accountability for outcomes, and drive solutions from design to production. You will work on large-scale, distributed, real-time backend systems where correctness, resilience, and performance directly impact live operations. Success in this role demands strong technical judgment, system-level thinking, and the ability to operate with ambiguity. What This Role Expects (Beyond Coding) : - Ability to understand problem statements deeply, ask the right questions, and propose technically sound solutions - Ownership of services across their full lifecycle : design , implementation , deployment , monitoring , incident resolution - Proactive identification of system risks, performance bottlenecks, and failure scenarios - Willingness to make trade-offs, defend design decisions, and improve systems iteratively - Comfort operating in production-first environments where uptime and correctness matter Key Responsibilities : - Design, build, and own distributed backend services using Erlang/OTP - Model complex workflows using concurrency and message-passing primitives - Design and maintain robust supervision h