Senior Network Backend Engineer
Point One Navigation Inc2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or San Diego, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$215k - $266k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of backend services and customer-facing APIs for the RTK Corrections Network.
- Build and evolve clear, documented, reliable API-first services for internal and external developers.
- Own ingestion, processing, and distribution of GNSS correction data from reference stations to field devices.
- Design low-latency streaming and connectivity paths, including NTRIP and similar protocols.
- Scale network capacity and coverage as regions, stations, and customers expand.
- Design distributed systems for high availability, graceful degradation, and recovery under partial failure.
- Own metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, testing, and verification across backend services and the correction pipeline.
- Identify performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and test-coverage gaps before they affect customers.
- Engage with customers and cross-functional embedded, firmware, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams to deliver durable technical solutions.
- Surface technical risks and tradeoffs and manage delivery against concrete tasks, schedules, and milestones.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software development experience with significant backend or distributed-systems depth.
- Proven ability to design, build, deploy, and operate production backend services and APIs at scale, including on-call ownership.
- Ability to decompose high-level goals into actionable tasks, realistic schedules, and milestones while delivering on commitments.
- Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Go, Java, or Python.
- Deep understanding of TCP/IP, TLS, and HTTP, with experience building low-latency, high-throughput services.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems for availability, scaling, and observability.
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP, containers, and CI/CD.
- Experience designing and owning testing and verification strategies for complex systems.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with real-time data streaming or low-latency messaging such as gRPC or Kafka is preferred.
- Experience with Flink, Spark, or Hadoop is preferred.
- Working knowledge of GNSS, RTK corrections, or positioning technologies is preferred.
- Background in highly available or mission-critical systems is preferred.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and large-scale observability tooling is preferred.
Benefits
- In-office three days per week in San Francisco, CA or San Diego, CA
- High autonomy and opportunities for advancement through promotion from within
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About Point One Navigation Inc
Point One is the first full-stack localization platform offering centimeter-accurate positioning designed for today’s most demanding applications. Precision location within minutes of setup, plus an intuitive and modern API. 100x more accurate than GPS with coverage in the United States, EU, UK, Australia, South Korea, Japan, and more.