Staff or Senior Software Engineer, Security Data Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Data Center Security Engineer to own the software platform for physical security signals across data center sites. You will design, implement, and operate end-to-end pipelines from sensors to analyst actions, coordinating with vendors and internal teams in a production environment.

The role involves building the event bus, normalization, and analytics pipelines, plus dashboards and audit-ready outputs.

Qualifications

• Have built and run event-driven backend systems in production.
• Are proficient in at least one backend language such as Python, Go, or Rust, and have worked with a message bus or event streaming system such as Kafka.
• Have owned a system end to end: set the design, made the tradeoffs, shipped it, and answered for it in production.
• Have integrated with external systems you did not control and designed for a life beyond any one vendor.
• Have directed vendor or integrator work: written requirements and acceptance criteria, reviewed deliverables against them, and decided what gets accepted.
• Design for the failure you won't see coming and test for it.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the event bus and normalized event schema.
• Build correlation and alerting.
• Build the classification and analytics pipelines.
• Build analyst surfaces: dashboards and watch tools.
• Deliver audit evidence: tamper-evident history and exports.
• Instrument metrics and self-monitoring.
• Deploy across sites and hand over to analysts.
• Specify compute the platform runs on and baseline security.

Skills

Event-driven backend

Go/Python/Rust

Kafka

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor7s degree

Tools

Kafka

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Data Center Security Engineer to own the software platform for physical security signals across data center sites. You will design, implement, and operate end-to-end pipelines from sensors to analyst actions, coordinating with vendors and internal teams in a production environment.

The role involves building the event bus, normalization, and analytics pipelines, plus dashboards and audit-ready outputs.