Staff Backend Engineer for AI-Driven Platform (Remote)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership across teams and drive modular architecture. You will lead large backend initiatives, define standards for APIs, security, reliability, and mentor engineers while advancing AI-assisted workflows.

This remote-first role emphasizes autonomy and collaboration across product, security, data, and infrastructure groups.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading backend teams.
• Experience modernizing monoliths to modular architectures.
• Expertise in APIs, data platforms, and service patterns.
• Experience with AI-assisted workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-cutting backend initiatives across teams.
• Define modular architecture and modernization of monoliths.
• Set standards for APIs, testing, security, and observability.
• Establish shared data ownership and eventing patterns.
• Own production incidents and drive improvements.
• Mentor engineers and grow technical capability.
• Lead AI adoption and guardrails.

Skills

Cross-Team Leadership

Backend Architecture

Modular Monolith

Go

Kubernetes

Rust

AI leadership

Product judgment

Mentorship

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

Rust

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership across teams and drive modular architecture. You will lead large backend initiatives, define standards for APIs, security, reliability, and mentor engineers while advancing AI-assisted workflows.

This remote-first role emphasizes autonomy and collaboration across product, security, data, and infrastructure groups.