Distributed Systems & Reliability Engineer

Core responsibilities:

• Own the reliability, availability, and failover behavior of the centralized planning system in production, with a focus on high-availability architectures across servers and clusters.
• Design and implement leader election, health checks, heartbeat protocols, and controlled failover/hand-off when instances fail or become partitioned.
• Define and build state continuity mechanisms so backup instances can take over from recent state instead of cold-starting.
• Engineer restart-safe, idempotent workflows for trip/ticket handling and routing decisions so replays, retries, and partial failures do not cause double assignment or missing states.

This role creates positive change by ensuring the reliability and safety of Glydways' transit system, which aims to make transportation more accessible, affordable, and sustainable, thereby empowering communities to thrive and unlock economic and social prosperity.

Required skills and experience:

• Strong experience building and operating distributed, real-time backend systems (including C++ and Go services).
• Proven track record designing and implementing high-availability and failover patterns (leader election, active/standby, hot/warm backups, multi-server or multi-cluster setups).
• Expertise in idempotent, restart-safe operations and APIs that tolerate retries, duplicates, and out-of-order messages without corrupting state or violating safety constraints.
• Strong background in observability and diagnostics: logging, metrics, tracing, SLO definition and debugging production states.

No specific benefits, compensation, or perks mentioned in the job description.

Glydways is reimagining public transit with a mission to revolutionize transit with a solution that delivers high capacity, exceptional user experiences, unmatched affordability, and minimal environmental impact. Their system is a groundbreaking network of carbon-neutral, interconnected transit pathways powered by standardized autonomous vehicles on dedicated roadways.