Staff Software Engineer — OSS Replication & Cloud Backbone

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

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Replication Foundations team within the CGS organization. You’ll help set the technical direction for the distributed replication stack, guide architecture decisions, and collaborate across teams to evolve reliable, scalable replication capabilities powering OSS and cloud products.

You’ll lead design, implementation, rollout, and operations, mentor engineers, and contribute to incident response and performance

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals such as replication, partitioning, consistency, fault tolerance, durability, concurrency, and failure recovery.
• Experience defining system architecture, protocol behavior, invariants, and trade-offs in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.
• Experience debugging complex production issues, including concurrency bugs, data inconsistencies, partial failures, and performance bottlenecks.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction and evolve the architecture of the company’s OSS replication stack, from problem definition through rollout and operational support.
• Lead the design and implementation of replication protocols that power High Availability namespaces, cross-cluster and cross-region replication, and migration between clusters.
• Drive scalability and reliability initiatives such as multi-cell namespaces and load distribution improvements.
• Define and communicate system-level guarantees, including consistency models, ordering, idempotency, failure recovery, performance, and operational behavior.
• Identify architectural risks and opportunities, and shape the technical roadmap for replication capabilities that support current and future cloud products.
• Partner with Cloud Enablement, CGS, Product, and other teams to align OSS replication foundations with customer needs.
• Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and provide technical guidance across the organization.
• Lead or contribute to debugging production issues, incident response, and follow-up improvements related to replication and core system behavior.

Skills

Distributed systems

Replication

Consistency models

Fault tolerance

Concurrency

Failure recovery

System architecture

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Go

Java

C++

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Replication Foundations team within the CGS organization. You’ll help set the technical direction for the distributed replication stack, guide architecture decisions, and collaborate across teams to evolve reliable, scalable replication capabilities powering OSS and cloud products.

You’ll lead design, implementation, rollout, and operations, mentor engineers, and contribute to incident response and performance