Staff Software Engineer, Elixir
True Anomaly2 months ago
Denver, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$205k - $315k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead large-scale, cross-functional distributed-systems initiatives from technical vision through production deployment and long-term evolution.
- Define the Elixir/OTP systems roadmap and architectural strategy, including reusable patterns, frameworks, and infrastructure.
- Make primary technical decisions for distributed-systems architecture and establish engineering standards.
- Identify reliability, scalability, and architectural risks; build organizational support and lead multi-quarter remediation initiatives.
- Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, establish best practices, and develop emerging technical leaders.
- Partner with executive leadership, product, design, frontend engineering, space operations, and astrodynamics teams on strategy and execution.
- Improve reliability, deployment velocity, developer experience, documentation, architectural review, and knowledge sharing.
- Lead incident response, post-mortems, architectural migrations, and strategic planning for backend systems.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software development experience.
- Expert-level mastery of Elixir and OTP, including BEAM internals, scheduling, memory management, garbage collection, process architecture, and runtime characteristics at scale.
- Deep expertise designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems with fault tolerance, consistency, availability, clustering, and horizontal scalability.
- Experience establishing testing strategies across unit, integration, property-based, and end-to-end testing layers.
- Extensive experience building service architectures, libraries, and internal infrastructure used by multiple teams and products.
- Expertise with gRPC, REST, WebSockets, and GraphQL integration patterns and cross-service API architecture.
- Ability to work full-stack when necessary, with sufficient frontend and infrastructure knowledge to make architectural decisions and unblock teams.
- Experience leading technical initiatives in Git-based workflows, code review standards, and collaborative engineering cultures.
- U.S. citizenship and eligibility for DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar discipline is preferred.
- Experience as a technical lead, staff engineer, or principal engineer on business-critical production systems is preferred.
- Experience with large-scale migrations, architectural overhauls, real-time distributed systems, PostgreSQL optimization, observability, incident response, regulated industries, technical writing, open-source contributions, or conference speaking is preferred.
Benefits
- $205,000–$315,000 base salary, plus equity and benefits.
- Health, dental, vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO, paid holidays, 401K, and parental leave.
- Onsite role for candidates based near Denver, Colorado, or Long Beach, California.
- Flexible work hours and location are offered within the onsite role requirements.
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About True Anomaly
True Anomaly builds spacecraft and software for space defense, including autonomous satellites, precision-sensing payloads, mission command-and-control software, and space-based interceptors for national security and commercial operators. Founded in 2022 by former U.S. Space Force members, it is privately held and headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. The company sells hardware, AI-enabled flight software, and mission operations services to U.S. and allied defense programs and space infrastructure providers.