Staff Backend Engineer (Ruby/Go) – Remote & Scalable Systems

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an exceptional Staff Backend Developer (Ruby/Go) to join the Engine team. You will help design and scale the recipe runtime, handling DSL, event pulling, webhooks, and job execution, with emphasis on performance, durability, and concurrency.

You will work across phases, review code, lead projects, and collaborate with teams on shared initiatives. Strong Ruby and Go plus cloud and distributed systems experience are required; familiarity with Postgres,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building scalable distributed backend applications.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems patterns and algorithms.
• Experience with Ruby and Go; multi-language codebase.
• Cloud deployment knowledge (K8s, Terraform, ArgoCD) and public clouds.

Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor to the architecture and design of distributed applications with strict requirements for performance and resilience.
• Build/extend/troubleshoot/fix complex heterogeneous Golang/Ruby applications, as well as small self-contained Golang microservices.
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code in Ruby and Golang.
• Integration of data storage solutions Postgres/S3/Redis/Kafka/ClickHouse etc.
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Provide code reviews to your teammates.
• Provide technical leadership. Work with other teams on shared projects.
• Evaluate and propose improvements to existing systems.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization.

Skills

Distributed backend systems

Ruby

Go

Rust

Kubernetes

Terraform

ArgoCD

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Debugging & problem solving

Education

BS/MS in CS/Engineering

Tools

Postgres

S3

Redis

Kafka

ClickHouse

Docker

REST APIs

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an exceptional Staff Backend Developer (Ruby/Go) to join the Engine team. You will help design and scale the recipe runtime, handling DSL, event pulling, webhooks, and job execution, with emphasis on performance, durability, and concurrency.

You will work across phases, review code, lead projects, and collaborate with teams on shared initiatives. Strong Ruby and Go plus cloud and distributed systems experience are required; familiarity with Postgres,