Senior Software Engineer – Messaging

Who We Are Is What We Do.

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers.

Why should you be part of our success story?

As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are.

Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator's top companies list – all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google.

Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought‑after leader in the transformation of global work.

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure – Messaging & Async Platform team, focused on building and scaling our messaging and asynchronous communication platform.

This role is ideal for someone who has strong experience designing, operating, and improving distributed systems that power event-driven architectures. You will work on the core infrastructure that enables reliable communication between services, supports high-throughput workloads, and helps engineering teams build resilient asynchronous workflows.

You should have hands‑on experience with technologies such as NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or similar messaging and streaming platforms, as well as a strong understanding of distributed systems, observability, reliability, and performance at scale.

Responsibilities

You will operate and improve our async platform based on NATS designing, building, and maintaining messaging and event-driven infrastructure used across multiple engineering teams. Additionally, you will develop tooling, libraries, and platform capabilities that make asynchronous communication easier, safer, and more reliable for engineering teams.

• Improve reliability, scalability, latency, throughput, and operational visibility of messaging systems.
• Define best practices for event publishing, consuming, schema evolution, retries, dead-letter queues, backpressure, and message durability.
• Partner with application teams to migrate, adopt, or optimize their use of messaging and async workflows.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues in distributed systems and drive long‑term improvements.
• Contribute to architecture decisions around event-driven systems, service communication, and platform reliability.
• Participate in incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement of operational processes.

Requirements

• Strong professional experience as a software engineer, ideally in infrastructure, platform engineering, backend systems, or distributed systems.
• Hands‑on experience with messaging, streaming, or pub/sub technologies such as NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or similar.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consistency, ordering, delivery guarantees, fault tolerance, retries, idempotency, and backpressure.
• Experience operating production systems at scale, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Typescript, Go, Python, or similar.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerized environments, such as Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Ability to design pragmatic, reliable s