Remote Backend Engineer — AI-Driven Distributed Systems

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

Vision & dental

Mental health benefits

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join the Flag Delivery team. The role focuses on delivering high-throughput backend services, with a senior team that balances modernization and resilience.

You’ll work on distributed systems, real-time production workloads, and collaborate closely with SDK, Platform, SRE, and Security teams. You should bring real production instincts, strong debugging judgment, and a demonstrated ability to learn quickly on a senior team,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Experience building or operating production backend systems.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Rust, or similar; Go preferred in current environment.
• Clear, existing AI usage in engineering work.

Responsibilities

• Build, improve, and operate backend services powering Flag Delivery systems.
• Contribute to streaming and polling delivery models for company SDKs.
• Debug production issues and improve latency, availability, observability, and operability.
• Collaborate with SDK, Platform, SRE, Security, and Enterprise teams to deliver platform improvements.
• Participate in on-call rotation and own the systems you help build.
• Learn architecture deeply and make pragmatic improvements for clarity and performance.
• Use AI judiciously in engineering workflows and verify outputs.

Skills

Backend engineering

Production systems

Go / Java / Rust

AI in engineering

Distributed systems

Observability

On-call ownership

Cross-team collaboration

System reasoning

Learning mindset

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join the Flag Delivery team. The role focuses on delivering high-throughput backend services, with a senior team that balances modernization and resilience.

You’ll work on distributed systems, real-time production workloads, and collaborate closely with SDK, Platform, SRE, and Security teams. You should bring real production instincts, strong debugging judgment, and a demonstrated ability to learn quickly on a senior team,