Senior Backend Engineer - Real-Time AI Security Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

the company is leading the Alarms engineering team in building AI-driven security systems that detect, verify, and respond to real-world threats. You will contribute to scalable backend services, integrate with cloud and edge components, and help deliver reliable, real-time security workflows.

This role emphasizes ownership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and delivering robust software in a fast-paced environment while advancing AI-enabled alarm capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in a production environment
• Strong programming skills in Go
• Experience with distributed system design and API architecture

Responsibilities

• Design and build low-latency, high-availability backend services that orchestrate alarm detection and response
• Create flexible and extensible AI-powered workflows for intrusion and video monitoring use cases
• Build distributed systems that integrate internal products and third-party services (e.g., notifications, transcription, dispatch)
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, frontend, and firmware engineers to shape end-to-end customer experiences
• Operate with autonomy and take ownership of systems from design through production

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

API design

Event-driven architectures

Cloud computing

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

Kubernetes

Job description

the company is leading the Alarms engineering team in building AI-driven security systems that detect, verify, and respond to real-world threats. You will contribute to scalable backend services, integrate with cloud and edge components, and help deliver reliable, real-time security workflows.

This role emphasizes ownership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and delivering robust software in a fast-paced environment while advancing AI-enabled alarm capabilities.