Senior Backend Engineer - Global Creator Data Core (Remote)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote in Europe

Stock options

Unlimited paid vacation

Personal development support

Flexible hours

Regular offsites

Real ownership of production

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Data Core team. You will build and evolve systems that maintain 400M+ creator profiles across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, supporting search, analytics, and APIs.

You’ll own design, implementation, monitoring, and operational excellence, balancing coverage, freshness, and cost while collaborating with Data Search, Data Insights, product squads, and leadership.

Qualifications

• Built large-scale backend or data systems with high reliability and cost awareness.
• Shipped systems from concept to production end-to-end.
• Designed distributed systems with partial failures, retries, and backpressure.
• Worked with external APIs that are rate-limited or unstable.
• Experience with proxy management or request routing at scale.
• Operational ownership: observability, runbooks, and post-deploy focus.
• Autonomous problem solving and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Keep creator data flowing at massive scale across social platforms.
• Design resilient services to handle external API instability and rate limits.
• Improve efficiency and cost of data collection while maintaining freshness.
• Own production—architecture, code, monitoring, and safeguards.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Observability

APIs & integrations

Production ownership

Tools

AWS

Pulumi

TypeScript

Node.js

Aurora PostgreSQL

S3

CloudWatch

Proxy networks

Custom routing layers

ECS

SQS

Athena

GitHub

Slack

Notion

Cursor

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Data Core team. You will build and evolve systems that maintain 400M+ creator profiles across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, supporting search, analytics, and APIs.

You’ll own design, implementation, monitoring, and operational excellence, balancing coverage, freshness, and cost while collaborating with Data Search, Data Insights, product squads, and leadership.