Distributed Systems Engineer – On-Chain Markets

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Totalis is building the derivative layer for prediction markets with a focus on correctness, low latency, and reliable recovery. You will own core backend components related to market state, pricing, collateral, and settlement, shaping how off-chain and on-chain states stay synchronized.

We value strong system design, experience with distributed systems, and proficiency in Go or Rust, plus databases like Postgres/Redis. Join us to influence a new category of financial infrastructure.

Qualifications

• You have at least 1+ years of experience building production backend or infrastructure systems.
• You reason clearly about distributed state, concurrency, idempotency, and partial failure.
• You have experience with Go, Rust, or other systems languages and are comfortable with databases, queues, caches, and service boundaries.

Responsibilities

• You will own critical parts of market state, pricing, collateral, and settlement.
• You will decide how state is owned, how we recover when systems disagree, and how off-chain ledger state stays in lockstep with on-chain positions.
• You will help set architecture for scaling live markets, balancing latency, durability, and recovery.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Rust

Concurrency

Idempotency

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Queues

Job description

Totalis is building the derivative layer for prediction markets with a focus on correctness, low latency, and reliable recovery. You will own core backend components related to market state, pricing, collateral, and settlement, shaping how off-chain and on-chain states stay synchronized.

We value strong system design, experience with distributed systems, and proficiency in Go or Rust, plus databases like Postgres/Redis. Join us to influence a new category of financial infrastructure.