Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Multi-Region Scale

FOMO Labs Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

FOMO Labs Inc. is seeking a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and performance of our multi-region backend platform.

You’ll own critical shared infrastructure, including datastores, caches, and messaging systems, and design systems that stay predictable under traffic surges and regional outages. This hands-on role requires building and operating components while improving data systems, observability, and disaster-recovery capabilities, including defining

Qualifications

• 8+ years building backend, platform, or infrastructure systems.
• Designing and debugging distributed, high-throughput production services.
• Strong PostgreSQL experience with performance and replication concepts.
• Experience with Redis-like systems and memory management.
• AWS experience with ECS, RDS, ElastiCache; Terraform or IaC tooling.
• Proficiency in Go and/or TypeScript/Node.js; hands-on DR/Failover.
• Ability to plan and test disaster recovery and RTO/RPO strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate high-throughput, multi-region services.
• Improve datastore and cache performance, capacity, replication, and failure handling.
• Implement backpressure, concurrency limits, load shedding, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and bounded retries.
• Reduce cross-region latency and improve data locality.
• Design and test service, datastore, and regional failover procedures.
• Help architect new features to operate at scale from day one.
• Level-up the team on how to think about scale.

Skills

Distributed systems design

PostgreSQL tuning

Redis / caching

Go / TS

AWS / ECS / RDS

Infrastructure as code

Reliability engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS (ECS, RDS, ElastiCache)

Redis / Redis-like systems

PostgreSQL tooling

NATS JetStream / Kafka

Datadog / APM

Job description

FOMO Labs Inc. is seeking a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and performance of our multi-region backend platform.

You’ll own critical shared infrastructure, including datastores, caches, and messaging systems, and design systems that stay predictable under traffic surges and regional outages. This hands-on role requires building and operating components while improving data systems, observability, and disaster-recovery capabilities, including defining