Staff Backend Engineer — Real-Time Customer Data Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff full-stack engineer with a backend focus to drive real-time customer insights and a scalable data platform. You will design and implement backend services, APIs, and data pipelines, ensuring performance, security, and reliability across the stack.

The role is remote-first with a globally distributed team across Europe, the US, and Canada, offering diverse collaboration and growth opportunities while building a modern Customer Data Platform using

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Backend Engineer with a focus on database design and system architecture.
• Strong expertise in ClickHouse or similar columnar databases for real-time queries.
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch for indexing large datasets.
• Proficient in Python and Go.
• Experience with RESTful API design and development.
• Understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with performance tuning, data modeling, and query optimization.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs to support applications.
• Build and optimize data storage solutions using Postgres, ClickHouse and Elasticsearch to ensure high performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend engineers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers, to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in distributed systems and databases.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices for backend development.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and continuous integration efforts.
• Ensure security, scalability, and reliability of backend services.
• Analyze and improve system architecture, focusing on performance bottlenecks, scaling, and security.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Go

ClickHouse

Elasticsearch

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Microservices

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Elasticsearch

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff full-stack engineer with a backend focus to drive real-time customer insights and a scalable data platform. You will design and implement backend services, APIs, and data pipelines, ensuring performance, security, and reliability across the stack.

The role is remote-first with a globally distributed team across Europe, the US, and Canada, offering diverse collaboration and growth opportunities while building a modern Customer Data Platform using