Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

About Airship

Airship is trusted by world’s leading brands such as Alaska Airlines, BBC and The Home Depot to drive revenue growth and customer loyalty with exceptional cross-channel customer experiences. Today, brands are challenged to deliver seamless, unified customer experiences across a fragmented array of channels and devices— apps, websites, email, SMS, wallets and more.

Airship’s no-code, AI-powered platform was designed with non-technical, growth-focused teams in mind, making it easy to create, test and orchestrate hyper-personalised experiences across all channels. With the ability to easily enrich customer data and rapidly launch growth experiments, Airship enables brands to deliver consistent, meaningful interactions that accelerate conversion and foster deeper customer relationships.

We invite you to be part of our journey in building products and delivering services that touch millions of customers around the world every day.

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Airship powers customer engagement for some of the world’s most recognised brands, processing billions of mobile app interactions through a large-scale distributed data system. The Shared Services team works to improve the efficiency, reliability, and visibility of that system through shared libraries, platform improvements, and automation/tooling.

We’re looking for a distributed systems engineer to expand the reach and effectiveness of our small Shared Services team. The ideal candidate uses their skills, experience, and curiosity to explore the system, which includes Java services, Bigtable, Pub/Sub, Cloud

SQL, and Big Query. You’ll be hypothesizing, testing theories, documenting observations, and leveraging changes to improve our entire architecture, not just implementing targeted features.

• Read, understand, and write code and unit tests (primarily in Java)
• Investigate, diagnose, and implement improvements for performance bottlenecks and cost inefficiencies
• Implement, test, and deploy architecture and library changes which enable new insights and understanding, including cost modelling/reporting and data patterns
• Respond to performance and reliability issues identified internally and by customers
• Collaborate with other backend engineers to solve a broad range of distributed systems problems

• Experience writing Java and familiarity with industry best practices
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Hands‑on experience designing and maintaining data-intensive systems
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently, and in a team environment
• Experience with a cloud platform (Google Cloud Platform preferred)

• Memory optimisation and performance tuning of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
• Experience working with streaming and batch workloads
• Experience improving, adapting, and extending a mature codebase

Airship’s 'Digital First' approach to work means that for the majority of our roles, work can be performed remotely, either some or most of the time. Airship believes that flexible work contributes to a more productive and more equitable work environment, and that Airshippers are able to collaborate, innovate, and support one another across different locations and timezones.

Some roles may require that employees perform their work from a specific location to support business activities, and/or be within proximity to an Airship office location or customer or partner locations, while other roles can be performed 100% remotely.

This position is fully remote and may require up to 10% travel based on business needs or as requested by your manager.

The starting base pay range for this position is: $145,000 - $165,000 USD per year
. Base pay is part of the total compensation package and is determined by a variety of factors such as relevant skills, work experience, business priorities, market demands, and location. This role offers stock options, providing a direct opportunity to share in Airship’s success.

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options for you and…