Identity‑Focused Backend Engineer — Remote

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 163,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company

Competitive total compensation package

Comprehensive group benefits

Home office setup stipend

Professional development support

Retirement contributions match

Team meetups / travel opportunities

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a skilled software engineer to join our fully remote team. You will own end-to-end development, from backend services to identity and access management features, collaborating with UX/UI designers and product managers. Strong emphasis on security, observability, and scalable distributed systems in a fast-paced startup environment.

Experience with OAuth2/OIDC/SSO/SAML, SCIM, Go, and SQL databases is required. On-call rotation participation is expected.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with authentication/authorization protocols such as OAuth2, OIDC, SSO, and SAML.
• Experience with distributed systems and scalable services.
• Go language experience and SQL databases.
• Ability to work asynchronously in a remote, startup environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and document core software components as part of a small engineering team.
• Develop features in control plane, platform, and identity services.
• Support sign-on functionality including SSO, OAuth2, SAML, WebAuthn, and SCIM integration.
• Own running services, observability, incident response, and customer support escalations.
• Improve efficiency, scalability, and security of systems; participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

OAuth2 / OIDC / SSO / SAML

SCIM knowledge

Go programming language

SQL databases

Distributed systems

On-call / incident response

Strong written and verbalcommunication

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a skilled software engineer to join our fully remote team. You will own end-to-end development, from backend services to identity and access management features, collaborating with UX/UI designers and product managers. Strong emphasis on security, observability, and scalable distributed systems in a fast-paced startup environment.

Experience with OAuth2/OIDC/SSO/SAML, SCIM, Go, and SQL databases is required. On-call rotation participation is expected.