Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

Dustin Wilson is a Senior Engineer with 10 years of experience, with the last 5 years focused on observability, DBaaS, and database development. He has prior experience as a data engineer supporting ML teams. Dustin is targeting an IC role in observability (O11y), infrastructure, or finops/capacity planning. His niche lies between a backend engineer and a reliability researcher. He thrives on teams that build legible, performant systems and are committed to mentorship and developing earlier-career engineers. Dustin has published writing and research on distributed systems on his blog, including a recent auto-sharding system project. He is proficient in Go, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Temporal, Prometheus, Kafka, Postgres, and Redis. Dustin is located in NYC, NY, is open to remote work but prefers a hybrid setup in NYC, and is not willing to relocate.