Distributed Systems Engineer

MLabs

8h • Remote

About The Position

We are hiring on behalf of our client who is an innovative organization building the next generation of market infrastructure to redefine how value is discovered, priced, and distributed in real time. The mission centers on bringing structure, transparency, and efficiency to systems where value is currently fragmented and opaque. Operating at the intersection of distributed systems, market structure, and applied cryptography, the firm is defining a new category for MEV distribution that merges economic efficiency with emerging regulatory frameworks. Based in New York and San Francisco, the organization consists of a high-leverage team focused on building systems that impact real-world economic flows. The successful candidate will design and build core systems from first principles. This is an opportunity to turn ambiguous problems into production-grade infrastructure, defining architecture and making critical tradeoffs in a fast-moving environment. The role involves working across the full stack of real-time distributed systems, including data ingestion, low-latency execution, and auction mechanisms.

Requirements

• Advanced proficiency in Rust and strong systems programming experience.
• Extensive experience building or operating distributed systems with real-world constraints regarding latency, scale, and fault tolerance.
• A proven ability to design complex systems from scratch, demonstrating a strong intuition for tradeoffs between performance, complexity, and reliability.
• A track record of taking end-to-end ownership of products or systems in ambiguous environments with minimal structure.
• Experience leveraging AI tools and agent-based workflows to accelerate the development lifecycle.

Nice To Haves

• Background in systems where both correctness and low latency are mission-critical.
• Experience with blockchain consensus internals, validator client architecture, or low-level protocol development.
• Familiarity with virtual machines or low-level execution environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the core system architecture for a real-time, high-stakes distributed platform.
• Own systems from initial concept and design through implementation and production deployment.
• Translate ambiguous, high-level objectives into concrete, scalable technical solutions.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, latency constraints, and complex system failures.
• Drive technical direction across various components and services while establishing engineering best practices and code quality standards.
• Work closely with product and business functions to ensure technical decisions align with intended economic outcomes.
• Define engineering standards, influence future hiring, and set the cultural bar for the engineering organization.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience.
• Significant equity stake as an early member of the engineering team.
• Opportunity to shape the foundational engineering culture and build systems that mediate real economic flows.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed