Principal Distributed Systems Engineer

Alpheva AI · Artificial Intelligence · LLM & Generative AI · 25 days ago
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Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 8, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 4, 2026.

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Alpheva AI

Alpheva AI provides expert LLM training data, human feedback, model evaluations, and agent environments grounded in real professional workflows.
alpheva.ai · AI Training Data & Annotation · 501-1000 employees
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Review distributed-system designs and implementations for consistency, concurrency, fault tolerance, performance, and production operability.

Analyze service boundaries, state management, messaging guarantees, database behavior, and failure recovery under realistic production conditions.

Identify race conditions, scaling bottlenecks, ambiguous invariants, unsafe retry behavior, and tradeoffs hidden by simplified explanations.

Provide reference architectures and code-review feedback that reflect staff- or principal-level engineering judgment.

Remote, project-based contract work. Scope and hours depend on project matching; the listed hourly range applies to matched work.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate advanced domain tasks and AI-generated responses for factual accuracy and professional judgment.
  • Apply current standards, methods, and risk considerations from technology & computing.
  • Document errors, edge cases, and the reasoning behind an ideal response.
  • Collaborate asynchronously with Alpheva's research and evaluation teams.

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years building production backend or distributed systems
  • Expertise in concurrency, databases, messaging, consensus tradeoffs, and reliability engineering
  • Staff, principal, architect, or equivalent technical-leadership experience
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