Backend Engineer, Geo Team

United States Digital Space LLC

Bengaluru

On-site

INR 1,800,000 - 3,400,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Backend Engineer on the Geo team. You will design, build, and maintain backend services powering Geo, Disaster Recovery, and Backup/Restore.

The role emphasizes Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, with a focus on replication, verification, and reliable data migration for large self-managed environments. You will collaborate with Database Engineering, Infrastructure, and other teams to ensure observability, safe rollouts, and operational resilience while

Qualifications

Experience building and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications in production environments.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain backend functionality for Geo, Disaster Recovery, and Backup and Restore using Ruby on Rails and related services.
Improve replication and verification workflows for repositories with a focus on performance and reliability.
Use PostgreSQL features, including logical replication, to support migrations and future architectures.
Collaborate with multiple teams on initiatives that affect Geo and migrations.
Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews to drive improvements.
Own projects from proposal through rollout and production monitoring.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Monitoring

Tools

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Sidekiq

Job description

the company is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. the company enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust the company to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and innovation. the company is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

*Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on the company data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of the company.

An overview of this role

As a Backend Engineer on the Geo team, you'll design, build, and maintain the backend services that power the company Geo, Disaster Recovery, and Backup and Restore. Working primarily in Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, you'll improve replication, verification, failover, and data migration for large self-managed and the company Dedicated environments. You'll collaborate with Database Engineering, Infrastructure, the company Dedicated, and other teams to help distributed customers access repositories faster and recover reliably, while maintaining a high bar for observability, careful rollout, and operational resilience.

What you’ll do

Design, build, and maintain backend functionality for Geo, Disaster Recovery, and Backup and Restore using Ruby on Rails and related services.
Improve replication and verification workflows for repositories and related data, with a focus on performance, correctness, and operational simplicity.
Use PostgreSQL features, including logical replication, to support Geo, the company Dedicated migrations, and future Cells architectures.
Measure and reduce replication lag and verification failures through logs, metrics, and alerts, identifying disaster recovery risks early.
Collaborate with Database Engineering, Infrastructure, the company Dedicated, Tenant Scale, and other teams on initiatives that affect Geo and migrations.
Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews, then turn findings into product and operational improvements.
Partner with Support, Site Reliability Engineering, and Customer Success on Requests for Help, customer escalations, complex migrations, and incidents where Geo capabilities are critical.
Own projects from proposal and design through implementation, review, rollout, and production monitoring, while providing constructive feedback on merge requests.

What you’ll bring

Experience building and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications in production environments.
Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, including replication, indexing, and performance tuning.
Understanding of distributed systems and data replication concepts, including consistency, eventual consistency, and failure modes.
Experience building and operating background job or worker systems, such as Sidekiq, including monitoring and retry strategies.
Knowledge of replication and verification patterns, such as ordered event delivery and checksums, and experience debugging issues such as replication lag.
Experience operating or debugging large production deployments across installation methods, operating systems, or cloud providers.
Familiarity with recovery point objective (RPO), recovery time objective (RTO), planned failover, and backup and restore for stateful systems.

About the team

The Geo group is part of the company's Platforms Engineering organization and works closely with the company Dedicated, Database Engineering, Infrastructure, and Tenant Scale teams. Our work includes cross-team initiatives such as the company Dedicated migrations and the Cells architecture. We work asynchronously, with regular planning and retrospectives and a high bar for operational ownership, incident management, testing, and rollout safety.

How the company Supports Full-Time Employees

Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
Flexible Paid Time Off
Team Member Resource Groups
Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Growth and Development Fund
Parental Leave

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification.

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