Senior Platform Engineer, Orders Platform (Remote)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead foundational platform initiatives on the Orders Platform team. You will guide architectural strategy for high-volume order workflows, ensuring reliability, scalability, and auditability across systems, while partnering with Payments, Fulfillment, and Data teams.

You will work in a flexible, remote-friendly environment, bringing deep technical judgment and ownership to a collaborative, fast-paced organization committed

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and operating large-scale backend or platform systems in production environments.
• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional technical initiatives end to end, including architecture, implementation, rollout, and ongoing operations.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and high-volume APIs, including hands-on experience with event-driven patterns and idempotent workflows.
• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Go, Java, or Python.
• Production experience with relational and NoSQL data stores.
• Experience operating mission-critical services, including on-call ownership, service-level objectives or error budgets, performance tuning, incident management, and post-incident reviews.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate design exploration, implementation, code review, or code quality.
• Strong communication skills with experience partnering effectively with senior engineers, Product, and cross-functional stakeholders to align on technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-team initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, and correctness of the Orders platform across checkout, payments, fulfillment, and partner integrations.
• Define and drive the technical strategy for the order lifecycle, including modeling and evolving order state machines and service contracts.
• Architect and evolve event-driven, idempotent workflows for core order flows like creation, updates, cancellations, payments, and refunds.
• Collaborate with Payments, Fulfillment, Catalog, Ads, Fraud and Identity, Data, and Infrastructure to deliver durable platform capabilities.
• Modernize and extend the platform with improved consistency models, multi-tenant abstractions, and secure integrations.
• Design platform capabilities to support agentic commerce, including policy-driven automated workflows and secure APIs.
• Lead design reviews, coach engineers, and contribute hands-on to critical code paths.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cross-functional leadership

Go/Java/Python

On-call ownership

AI-assisted development tools

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Outbox pattern

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Observability tools

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead foundational platform initiatives on the Orders Platform team. You will guide architectural strategy for high-volume order workflows, ensuring reliability, scalability, and auditability across systems, while partnering with Payments, Fulfillment, and Data teams.

You will work in a flexible, remote-friendly environment, bringing deep technical judgment and ownership to a collaborative, fast-paced organization committed