Staff Distributed Systems Engineer - Multi-Region Backend

Recruiting from Scratch LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

In-person office in New York

Job summary

Recruiting from Scratch LLC in New York seeks a highly autonomous Staff-level distributed systems engineer to own multi-region backend infrastructure, improve reliability, latency, and scaling for high-throughput trading workloads.

You will design and operate high-throughput services, manage datastores, caches, messaging, disaster recovery, and incident response, mentoring engineers and elevating the team's technical bar.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend or distributed systems experience
• Experience designing, operating, and debugging high-throughput production systems
• Deep knowledge of production reliability and distributed-system failure modes
• Strong knowledge of query performance, indexing, and replication
• Experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code practices ( Terraform )
• Proficient programming in Go, TypeScript/Node.js, or equivalent
• Experience building failover and disaster-recovery systems
• Ability to mentor engineers and raise technical standards

Responsibilities

• Own reliability, scalability, and performance of a multi-region backend platform
• Design and operate high-throughput services supporting production trading workloads
• Own critical shared infrastructure including datastores, caches, messaging systems, and regional services
• Improve database and cache performance, capacity planning, replication, and failure handling
• Build systems that remain predictable during traffic spikes, dependency failures, infrastructure changes, and outages
• Implement resilience patterns including backpressure, concurrency limits, load shedding, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and bounded retries
• Reduce cross-region latency and improve data locality
• Design and implement service, datastore, and regional failover capabilities
• Establish disaster-recovery procedures, recovery objectives, and validation processes
• Build and test backup restoration and data-recovery workflows
• Define and validate RTO and RPO targets
• Help architect new product features for scale from the start
• Improve observability across distributed services and data infrastructure
• Remain hands-on with production systems and raise the distributed systems bar

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

AWS

Observability

Performance optimization

Database design

Caching strategies

Mentoring

Incident response

TypeScript/Node.js

Tools

Redis

NATS JetStream

Kafka

Datadog APM

Terraform

Job description

Recruiting from Scratch LLC in New York seeks a highly autonomous Staff-level distributed systems engineer to own multi-region backend infrastructure, improve reliability, latency, and scaling for high-throughput trading workloads.

You will design and operate high-throughput services, manage datastores, caches, messaging, disaster recovery, and incident response, mentoring engineers and elevating the team's technical bar.