# Staff Distributed Systems Engineer at fomo

- Company: fomo
- What the company does: Backed by Index, Techstars and USV.
- Company website: http://fomo.family/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $300K to $500K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fomo-labs/8ad45fa9-6fbc-455d-8c0b-4ab8bc99b8c8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fomo-staff-distributed-systems-engineer/

## About the role

We are looking for 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 application services, and design systems that remain predictable during traffic surges, dependency failures, infrastructure changes, and partial regional outages.

## What they're looking for

- 8 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 experience, including query performance, indexing, connection pooling, replication, transaction contention, and failure modes
- Strong experience with Redis-compatible systems such as Redis, Valkey, Dragonfly, or KeyDB, 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

Tags: Engineering