Senior Multi-Region Backend Reliability Engineer

fomo Labs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

fomo Labs is seeking a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and performance of our multi-region backend platform. You will own critical shared infrastructure, including datastores, caches, messaging systems, and regional services, and design systems that stay predictable during traffic surges and outages.

This is a hands-on role with direct production ownership, building and operating components while improving data systems and observability for a rapidly

Qualifications

• 8+ years in backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience designing and debugging distributed, high-throughput production systems.
• Strong PostgreSQL experience with performance, indexing, replication, transaction contention, and failure modes.
• Strong Redis-compatible systems experience including sharding, replication, memory management, hot keys, and failure handling.
• Experience operating services on AWS, ideally using ECS, RDS, and ElastiCache.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform.
• Proficiency in Go, TypeScript/Node.js, or a comparable systems-oriented language.
• Hands-on experience designing and testing failover and disaster-recovery systems, including backup restoration, replication, regional failover, and RTO/RPO validation.

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

Go

TypeScript/Node.js

PostgreSQL

Redis

AWS

Terraform

Failover testing

Observability

Backup/DR planning

Tools

NATS JetStream

Kafka

Datadog APM

Job description

fomo Labs is seeking a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and performance of our multi-region backend platform. You will own critical shared infrastructure, including datastores, caches, messaging systems, and regional services, and design systems that stay predictable during traffic surges and outages.

This is a hands-on role with direct production ownership, building and operating components while improving data systems and observability for a rapidly