Technical Lead - Distributed Systems
First seen by Alion on Oct 7, 2026.
About the role :
We are looking for a Lead Engineer to drive design and development of complex, highly available, distributed systems on AWS using Go, Python, and Node.js, running on Kubernetes-based platforms such as EKS and OpenShift.
You will set technical direction for a team, drive an automation-first engineering culture, and act as a hands-on technical leader who partners with product and client stakeholders to turn requirements into resilient, well-tested systems.
Role & responsibilities :
- Lead design and development of complex, distributed, high-availability systems in Go, Python, and Node.js
- Define technical approach and engineering best practices for the team
- Own key AWS infrastructure decisions covering scalability, cost, security, and resilience across container orchestration platforms (EKS, OpenShift) and serverless/compute services
- Drive automation strategy across CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, testing, and operations
- Lead technical design reviews and set coding and architecture standards
- Mentor engineers and guide their technical growth
- Collaborating with senior leads to drive delivery efficiency and technology excellence
- Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements
- Evaluate and introduce new tools and technologies where they add clear value
Preferred candidate profile :
- Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8 - 10 years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in distributed systems
- Expert-level proficiency in Go and Python, with strong working proficiency in Node.js for polyglot service environments
- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS architecture and services, including container orchestration on EKS
- Hands-on experience running and operating workloads on Red Hat OpenShift as an enterprise Kubernetes platform
- Proven experience designing and scaling automation frameworks and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible)
Skills
System Architect, Python, Node.js, AWS, OpenShift, Distributed Systems, Golang, Backend Architecture