Software Engineer, Backend

Responsibilities

• Help architect the backend for a C2 system directing swarms of heterogeneous aircraft
• Build distributed, collaborative real-time infrastructure for controlling large numbers of aircraft simultaneously, even when comms drop
• Design and build the services that ingest, process, and distribute dense vehicle telemetry, sensor data, scheduling, crew resources, and data link management
• Own backend features end to end, from design through deployment
• Ship early, ship often, backed by strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 6+ years building complex backend systems with real distributed systems depth
• Strong instincts for reliability, performance, and scalability
• Built and operated production backend services and APIs at scale

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with real-time and event-driven distributed systems
• A track record with performance-sensitive, high-throughput application development
• Familiarity with messaging and streaming protocols
• Experience operating systems under degraded or intermittent connectivity
• Experience with geospatial data or applications

Benefits

• Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company
• Medical, dental, vision, and 401k
• PTO and paid sick leave
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Daily catered lunch (office)
• Paid parental leave
• Direct impact on a critical national security mission
• A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems