Remote Backend Engineer, AI-Driven CDP Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 117,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

the company is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design and scale APIs for its Segment CDP platform. You’ll work with product management and other engineers to build robust services, optimize performance, and ensure reliability at scale.

This remote role welcomes applicants with 2+ years of production-grade coding in Go, Java, or Python, experience on AWS, and familiarity with Kubernetes, Kafka, and observability tools.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust, scalable backend systems and APIs across Segment's data platform.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and other engineers to define solutions that balance usability, performance, and long-term architecture.
• Communicate technical decisions clearly - articulating trade-offs, customer impact, and team alignment.
• Troubleshoot and improve system reliability, debugging issues and refining operational tooling and processes.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for our managed services.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

EKS

ECS

Docker

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Kafka

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

the company is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design and scale APIs for its Segment CDP platform. You’ll work with product management and other engineers to build robust services, optimize performance, and ensure reliability at scale.

This remote role welcomes applicants with 2+ years of production-grade coding in Go, Java, or Python, experience on AWS, and familiarity with Kubernetes, Kafka, and observability tools.