Senior Software Engineer, Storage Layer Services

United States Digital Space LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible paid time off

Maternity and paternity leave

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer in New York City. You will design and operate multi-tenant storage services, enhance operational excellence, and mentor junior engineers. This role supports hybrid working, combining office-based and remote work.

Candidates should have over 5 years of experience, primarily in cloud services with expertise in Rust or C/C++. The position offers competitive compensation and a range of employee benefits including flexible paid time off and parental leave.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with cloud services.
• Experience with large backend codebases (Rust or C/C++).
• Experience with distributed systems and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate multi-tenant storage services.
• Maintain high availability during load spikes and outages.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative environment.

Skills

Software development experience

Containerization and orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes)

Technical communication skills

Operational excellence

Tools

Rust

C/C++

Job description

the company’s Storage Layer Services (SLS) team is re-architecting the the company cloud storage layer and sits at the heart of our next-generation cloud storage architecture. This relatively new team is building performant, multi-tenant distributed storage services that both enhance today’s Atlas storage stack and enable more customer workloads to run more efficiently.

We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our team as we execute on a multi-year roadmap and prepare to launch and rapidly scale services that handle petabytes of data. Come do some of the most interesting work of your career as we Think Big and Go Far for our customers!

This role can be based out of our New York City office (hybrid working model) or remotely in the North America region.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and operate control plane services powering an elastic and multi-tenant storage layer for thousands of database instances.
• Solve problems around maintaining high availability and performance during load spikes, hardware failures, cloud provider outages, and other disruptions.
• Contribute to a culture of operational excellence through dashboards, playbooks, and on‑call improvements.
• Lead complex technical projects from planning through successful deployment with clear stakeholder updates.
• Partner closely with peers across database, cloud, and infrastructure engineering teams as well as project management to investigate incidents and develop long-term roadmaps.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative team environment.

We’re looking for someone with

• 5+ years of professional software development experience building, deploying, and operating multi-tenant cloud services with a focus on operational excellence.
• Experience with large backend/compiled codebases, such as Rust or C/C++.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes).
• Experience with observability tooling (e.g. time series metrics, dashboards).
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Familiarity with database internals or experience building core components for data processing systems.
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills, with a strong desire to collaborate with colleagues.
• Strong time management skills and the ability to realistically assess project complexity.
• Demonstrated track record of going above and beyond for customers.

Strong candidates may also have

• Experience writing and profiling highly performant Rust code.
• Experience improving reliability through chaos engineering and load testing.
• Experience building scalable cloud services on multiple cloud provider platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Interest in the theory and practice of high-availability systems (hands‑on experience or an M.Sc./Ph.D. in the domain is a plus).

Success Measures

• In 3 months, you'll have shipped code into production and collaborated with the team to solve tough problems.
• In 6 months, you'll have contributed to a large project.
• In 12 months, you'll have designed new features, led development work, and become a go‑to expert on parts of the system.

Benefits

the company’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of the company’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

the company’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is: $126,000 — $248,000 USD

the company is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

the company, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.