Backend Engineer, Data Layer — Remote

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote & Flexible work

Annual Kickoff & team events

Health & wellbeing programs

Professional growth stipend

Global equity options

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Backend Software Engineer for the Data Layer team. You will design, build, and maintain the storage and query layer spanning relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch to keep process data fast, accurate, and scalable.

You'll own end-to-end delivery, translate requirements into concrete designs, and collaborate with product, design, QA, and support in a remote-first environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Hands-on with at least one listed database or Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Ability to break down requirements into concrete tasks and designs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services for the data layer that stores and serves the company 8's process data, spanning relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, with an eye toward correctness, performance, and scale.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives, working with Product Management and senior colleagues to break down requirements into concrete solution designs, driving projects to timely and high-quality delivery.
• Help evolve how we process, retain, and expose process data, so customers can work with their data the way they need to.
• Invest in making our secondary storage systems more performant and scalable as usage grows, and build tooling that makes it easier to understand, troubleshoot, and safely operate the data layer in production.
• Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations, partnering with Support and SRE to investigate data layer production issues, and feeding what you learn back into the product.

Skills

Backend systems

Production data stores

Remote collaboration

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MariaDB

MSSQL

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Backend Software Engineer for the Data Layer team. You will design, build, and maintain the storage and query layer spanning relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch to keep process data fast, accurate, and scalable.

You'll own end-to-end delivery, translate requirements into concrete designs, and collaborate with product, design, QA, and support in a remote-first environment.