Senior Backend Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Mental health support

Parental leave policy & fertility bene

Flexible PTO and holidays

Wellness/fitness benefits

Commuter benefits

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking experienced back-end engineers to join the Core Command team. You will help scale the Auth, Users, Roles and Audit capabilities of our platform to serve the worlds largest organizations.

As a back-end engineer, you will design scalable control planes and data primitives, build distributed systems capable of handling massive device traffic, and spin up new services in a microservices architecture, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
• 4+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience building and scaling access systems to millions of users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable control planes and data primitives for all the company products.
• Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices deployed around the world.
• Spin up new services in a microservices architecture.

Skills

Communication skills

Software engineering experience

Willingness to work onsite

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

Go

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

Memcached

Kafka

AWS

GCP

Azure

React

GRPC

APIs

Job description

Who We Are

the company is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and the company is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million the company devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About the Role

We are looking for experienced back-end engineers to join the the company Core Command team. We are scaling out the Auth, Users, Roles and Audit capabilities of the company's core products to service the largest organizations in the world.

What You’ll Do

• Design scalable control planes and data primitives for all the company products
• Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices deployed around the world.
• Spin up new services in a microservices architecture

What You Bring

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering
• 4+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience in building and scaling access systems to millions of users around the world
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Mastery of at least one of Python or Go
• Experience with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL)
• Experience with key-value storage systems (Redis, Memcached)
• Experience with distributed queueing (Kafka) and caching (Redis, Memcached)
• Experience with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with React
• Experience with GRPC and API specifications
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week

US Employee Benefits

the company is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Fertility Stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Annual Pay Range

At the company, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A the company employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$170,000—$260,000 USD

the company Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, the company is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at the company will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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