Fomo
Staff Distributed Systems Engineer
$300K–$500K
New York City · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Experience
- 12 or more years, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Own and operate Fomo’s multi-region backend platform, improving its reliability, scalability, performance, and disaster recovery.
What you'll do
- Design and operate high-throughput, multi-region services and shared infrastructure.
- Improve datastore and cache performance, resilience, capacity, and cross-region data locality.
- Design and test service, datastore, and regional failover and disaster-recovery procedures.
What they ask for
- 12 or more years of backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience designing and debugging distributed, high-throughput production systems.
- Strong PostgreSQL and Redis-compatible systems experience, including performance, replication, and failure handling.
- Experience with AWS, infrastructure as code, a systems-oriented language, and hands-on failover and disaster-recovery systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with NATS JetStream, Kafka, or another durable messaging system.
- Familiarity with Datadog APM and AWS Performance Insights.
Pay
$300K – $500K (USD, base salary)
Tools
PostgreSQL, Redis, Valkey, Dragonfly, KeyDB, AWS, ECS, RDS
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