Backend Engineer - Real-Time AI Security Orchestration

United States Digital Space LLC; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Family coverage

HSA/FSA

Mental health

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Professional development

Fertility stipend

Wellness perks

Lunch provided

Commuter benefits

Job summary

the company is seeking a Backend Engineer in San Mateo, CA to design and scale AI-driven detection and response workflows, building low-latency services and distributed systems across hardware and cloud platforms.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, and firmware teams to deliver real-time threat identification and customer-ready experiences, in a fast-moving, ownership-led environment with a strong benefits package.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of backend engineering experience in a production environment.
• Strong programming skills with Go preferred.
• Solid grasp of distributed system design, API architecture, and event-driven workflows.
• Experience with Postgres and scalable data systems (Kafka, Redis).

Responsibilities

• Design and build low-latency, high-availability backend services that orchestrate alarm detection and response.
• Create flexible and extensible AI-powered workflows for intrusion and video monitoring use cases.
• Build distributed systems that integrate internal products and third-party services (e.g., notifications, transcription, dispatch).
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, frontend, and firmware engineers to shape end-to-end customer experiences.

Skills

Go

Backend development

Distributed systems

API design

Event-driven

Tools

Postgres

Kafka

Redis

Job description

the company is seeking a Backend Engineer in San Mateo, CA to design and scale AI-driven detection and response workflows, building low-latency services and distributed systems across hardware and cloud platforms.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, and firmware teams to deliver real-time threat identification and customer-ready experiences, in a fast-moving, ownership-led environment with a strong benefits package.