Distributed Systems Engineer - Real-Time, Scalable Data

withmoment.com; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Terrace office

Free lunch and dinner

Gym stipend

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Job summary

Moment is hiring an Engineer to help build the systems powering its next chapter in investment management. You will design and ship high‑assurance distributed systems, event‑driven pipelines, and data platforms that perform under the weight of trillions of dollars in assets.

You’ll work closely with leadership to deliver software that is ambitious and distinctive. The role is highly autonomous and collaborative, requiring both system design and hands‑on coding across backend, data infra, and

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and general systems fundamentals.
• Experience architecting or contributing to systems that solve complex challenges around scalability, distributed systems, and large data volumes.
• A willingness to figure stuff out.

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship systems that solve hard problems at scale.
• Design and implement distributed pipelines and data platforms.
• Collaborate with leadership and teammates to deliver ambitious software initiatives.
• Navigate from low‑level performance work to architectural strategy and execution.

Skills

Design patterns

System scalability

Willingness to learn

Tools

Golang

gRPC

PostgreSQL

Kafka

ClickHouse

AWS Lambda

Job description

Moment is hiring an Engineer to help build the systems powering its next chapter in investment management. You will design and ship high‑assurance distributed systems, event‑driven pipelines, and data platforms that perform under the weight of trillions of dollars in assets.

You’ll work closely with leadership to deliver software that is ambitious and distinctive. The role is highly autonomous and collaborative, requiring both system design and hands‑on coding across backend, data infra, and