Senior Software Engineer - Data Integrations

About Ditto

Ditto is redefining how data moves at the edge. Our mission is to make it seamless for developers to build resilient, real-time applications, regardless of network conditions. Whether you're in a stadium, airplane, or remote military base, Ditto's peer-to-peer sync engine ensures devices stay connected and data stays consistent, even without internet. With more than $145 million in funding and trusted by organizations like Chick-fil-A, Delta Airlines, and the U.S. military, Ditto powers mission-critical experiences across aviation, retail, travel, hospitality, defense, and more. As a globally distributed, fast-growing startup, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects the wide range of perspectives needed to solve the world’s hardest connectivity problems.

Ditto is an equal opportunity employer with people from many different cultures and countries. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, skill sets, and perspectives, and to providing our employees with a rewarding and inclusive work environment.

Position Overview

Want to build the next-generation of mesh network technology? Your role is to help build the future of cloud database technology at Ditto that aggregates all the data from the edge platform with a custom, scalable, high-performance distributed system. You will work on both new features and optimizing existing infrastructure to ensure reliability and performance at scale. Work with a remote team, manage your own time, and tackle interesting problems.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer - Data Integrations, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain highly available (both bi-directional and uni-directional) connectors between Ditto and various external storages, such as MongoDB.
• Ensure data consistency and system performance by implementing correctness and load tests.
• Collaborate with the SRE team to monitor, debug, and optimize distributed systems in production environments.
• Write technical documentation, and contribute to system architecture designs.
• Drive performance tuning efforts to ensure systems meet the demands of large-scale, distributed environments.
• Participate in on-call rotations, partnering with the SRE team to manage production systems and meet uptime SLAs.

Requirements

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2-5 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on distributed systems and low-level programming languages like Rust and/or modern C/C++.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and performance optimization techniques.
• Excellent communication skills, especially in asynchronous collaboration.
• Experience with on-call rotations and incident response tools and procedures.
• Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed team.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with a wide range of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, time-series) and good understanding of their isolation guarantees, consistency models, and user-facing interfaces.
• Familiarity with Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs).
• Experience building data systems at scale.
• Proficiency in debugging production systems across different levels of stacks, utilizing observability tooling such as Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Datadog.

Benefits

The Benefits of Building with Us:

We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity. We believe everyone on the team should have a stake in what we’re building. Benefits vary by region to make sure you're covered in the ways that matter most.

• In the US: Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, plus a 401(k) and flexible spending accounts.
• In the UK: Private healthcare through Vitality, a pension plan, and region-specific coverage.
• Elsewhere: We work with our global employer platform.