About the Role
Distributed Systems Engineer (Elixir / Erlang)
Company: BHO Tech
Location: Bay Area (Hybrid)
Compensation: $185K–$260K + bonus + equity (DOE)
About BHO Tech
BHO Tech partners with fast-growing startups and AI-driven companies to build elite engineering teams. We work with founders who value speed, ownership, and strong engineering fundamentals.
Role
We’re looking for a Distributed Systems Engineer with deep Elixir / Erlang / OTP experience to design and scale backend systems that must be highly available, fault-tolerant, and real-time. You’ll own architecture and implementation for core systems that need to run reliably under load.
What You’ll Do
• Build and maintain distributed, low-latency backend services
• Design systems using OTP, supervision trees, and concurrency patterns
• Develop real-time pipelines, message-passing, and event-driven services
• Optimize system reliability, performance, and resilience
• Work closely with product + backend teams to deliver features end-to-end
What We’re Looking For
• Strong professional experience with Elixir and/or Erlang/OTP
• Deep understanding of concurrency, fault-tolerance, and distributed systems
• Experience running production services at scale
• Clean engineering habits + strong debugging and performance instincts
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment
Bonus
• Phoenix / LiveView experience
• Message queue / streaming experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, etc.)
• Prior startup or 0→1 system design experience
Interested?
Send your résumé to krisyoung@bhotech.co and I will forward you the full details.
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Best regards,
Kris Young
Director | BHO Tech Inc.
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