Senior Distributed Systems Engineer — Real-Time Data

Moment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary: $200K to $325K

Equity: aggressive initial grant +Bonu

West Village Office with terrace

Free lunch and dinner

$150 monthly gym stipend

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Job summary

Moment is the AI operating system for investment management, serving the world’s largest wealth firms. We hire exceptional people for a high-ambition environment in New York’s West Village.

As a Distributed Systems Engineer, you’ll build scalable, real-time data infrastructure that powers trillions in assets and supports top financial institutions. You’ll work with leadership across backend, data infrastructure, and product, delivering ambitious, high-impact systems with autonomy and

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and 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 — distributed systems at scale, event-driven pipelines, and data platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact software.
• Navigate from low-level performance work to architectural strategy, and communicate plans clearly.

Skills

Distributed systems

Algorithms & data structures

System scalability

Golang

gRPC

PostgreSQL

Kafka

ClickHouse

Cloud functions

Tools

Kafka

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

AWS Lambda

Job description

Moment is the AI operating system for investment management, serving the world’s largest wealth firms. We hire exceptional people for a high-ambition environment in New York’s West Village.

As a Distributed Systems Engineer, you’ll build scalable, real-time data infrastructure that powers trillions in assets and supports top financial institutions. You’ll work with leadership across backend, data infrastructure, and product, delivering ambitious, high-impact systems with autonomy and