Staff Distributed Systems Engineer - Scale & Resilience

SOLANA FOUNDATION; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

fomo is seeking a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and performance of its multi-region backend platform in New York. You will manage critical shared infrastructure like datastores, caches, and messaging systems, ensuring predictable behavior during traffic surges and outages.

You will also implement disaster-recovery capabilities, define recovery objectives, and build testing to safely recover services and data.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend/platform/infrastructure engineering experience.

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

PostgreSQL

Redis

AWS ECS/RDS/ElastiCache

Terraform

Go/TypeScript

Failover & DR design

Performance tuning

Tools

NATS JetStream

Kafka

Datadog APM

AWS Performance Insights

Job description

fomo is seeking a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and performance of its multi-region backend platform in New York. You will manage critical shared infrastructure like datastores, caches, and messaging systems, ensuring predictable behavior during traffic surges and outages.

You will also implement disaster-recovery capabilities, define recovery objectives, and build testing to safely recover services and data.