Noah Ryan

Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Fly.io

Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Fly.ioSeattle, WA · America/Los_Angeles10 yrs · IC5

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OwnerDara Okafor

Comp expectation$361,808–$431,021

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Current role

Senior Software Engineer, Backend · Apr 2024—Present (2 yr)

Fly.io

Developer Tools · growth · Team of 9

Owned headcount, roadmap, and delivery for the team.

Shipped the v2 write path for the billing system
73× throughput vs. v1 with tighter SLOs
Rewrote the idempotency layer, moved from a single-writer to a partitioned design, zero revenue loss at cutover.
Authored the RFC and led the migration to event-sourced domain models
76 services migrated in 6 months
Removed a longstanding class of race conditions; improved audit coverage by an order of magnitude.
Onboarded async job infrastructure platform-wide
Handling 62M jobs/day at steady state
Consolidated on Temporal; decommissioned three bespoke queue systems; reduced on-call pages 40%.

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