Senior Backend Engineer - Edge APIs (Go, Security)

United States Digital Space LLC; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Flexible vacation

Paid sick leave

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer (APIs) focused on Security Products. You will design and ship public-facing APIs in Go, collaborating with product managers, security researchers, and frontend engineers to deliver secure, scalable workflows.

You will drive end-to-end API design, testing, and observability, with on-call responsibilities and a strong emphasis on reliability. Hybrid work with core Pacific/MT time is supported.

Qualifications

• 5+ years shipping production Go as your primary language.
• 3+ years on public APIs with external consumers.
• Experience designing reliable, large-scale backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, ship, and own public-facing APIs and backend services in Go—from proposal through production rollout and on-call support.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and security researchers to deliver end-to-end customer experiences.
• Turn ambiguous problems into well-defined technical plans that the team can execute on.

Skills

Go (Golang)

API design

REST/OpenAPI

Testing & observability

On-call experience

AI coding agents

Security product knowledge

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer (APIs) focused on Security Products. You will design and ship public-facing APIs in Go, collaborating with product managers, security researchers, and frontend engineers to deliver secure, scalable workflows.

You will drive end-to-end API design, testing, and observability, with on-call responsibilities and a strong emphasis on reliability. Hybrid work with core Pacific/MT time is supported.