Senior Go Backend Engineer, Email Platform (Remote)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 139,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Software Engineer, Email Platform (L3) to join a remote engineering team building massive-scale distributed systems. You will focus on Go-based microservices, backend modernization, and reliability across multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure).

You will own features end-to-end, participate in architecture discussions, implement observability, and mentor peers in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating resilient backend services at scale.
• Practical experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate code generation, automate testing, and streamline debugging workflows.
• Strong, hands-on production experience writing clean, idiomatic, and highly concurrent Go (Golang), Java or Python.
• Solid experience deploying and managing production workloads in cloud environments—ideally with deep exposure to AWS core services and Microsoft Azure equivalents.
• Proficiency with Terraform for provision-level automation and maintaining environment parity.
• Strong theoretical and practical understanding of distributed datastores, caching layers, and asynchronous event streaming (e.g., Kafka).
• Strong foundational background in computer science fundamentals, data structures, and building self-healing cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship reliable, high-velocity features that handle critical traffic with low end-to-end latency. Partner closely with product management and technical leadership to break down complex system requirements into manageable, iterative milestones.
• Drive rigorous code reviews and push for maintainable patterns in our Go codebase, ensuring high testing standards (unit, integration, and component testing) across the team.
• Manage and enhance cloud configurations across AWS and Azure environments utilizing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). Ensure deep observability coverage by standardizing metrics, alerts, and distributed tracing across core data pipelines.
• Advocate for a clean architectural foundation; identify technical debt, system bottlenecks, and SPOF, balancing feature delivery with refactoring.
• Mentor and lead: foster collaboration, mentor junior engineers, lead technical sprint planning, and share expertise across distributed engineering nodes.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Java

Python

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Software Engineer, Email Platform (L3) to join a remote engineering team building massive-scale distributed systems. You will focus on Go-based microservices, backend modernization, and reliability across multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure).

You will own features end-to-end, participate in architecture discussions, implement observability, and mentor peers in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.