Backend Software Engineer - Sensors and Tracking
Rune Technologies2 months ago
Seattle, WA, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build and own production backend systems that ingest data from physical sensors, devices, and hardware platforms.
- Develop integrations for sensor and hardware systems, including unreliable or incomplete interfaces.
- Design services and data pipelines that normalize, process, and expose sensor data within TyrOS.
- Build and improve tracking and sensor-fusion capabilities that correlate multiple detections into tracked entities.
- Handle incomplete, delayed, inconsistent, or unreliable real-world data feeds.
- Collaborate with platform engineers, product teams, and operational stakeholders on sensor and tracking requirements.
- Deploy and test software in unclassified and classified environments, including periodic work at customer or government sites.
- Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews.
- Triage and debug production issues while improving reliability, observability, and performance.
Requirements
- At least four years of software engineering experience building and operating production software systems.
- Hands-on experience integrating software with physical hardware, sensors, or device-generated data streams.
- Experience personally building systems that ingest data directly from hardware rather than only consuming third-party processed data.
- Proficiency in Python or Go.
- Strong backend engineering experience designing services, APIs, data pipelines, and production systems.
- Ability to work with messy, incomplete, or poorly documented hardware interfaces and data formats.
- Demonstrated software development experience writing and shipping production code.
- Comfort operating as an early or first hire in a new function with limited structure, expertise, or established processes.
- Experience with sensor fusion, multi-sensor correlation, object tracking, or related algorithms is desired.
- Experience in hardware-software environments such as autonomous systems, drones, radar, aerospace, satellites, robotics, or defense technology is desired.
- Familiarity with defense or government sensor, signal, or tracking data is desired.
- Experience with classified, disconnected, degraded, or operationally constrained environments is desired.
- Experience with radar systems, embedded data pipelines, telemetry, or other real-time hardware-generated data is desired.
- An active Secret-level or higher security clearance is desired.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with premiums fully covered for employees and low-cost premiums for spouses and dependents.
- Basic life insurance and disability coverage fully covered for employees, with optional additional life insurance.
- Paid time off that is not accrual based.
- Generous company holiday calendar, including a December holiday shutdown.
- Supportive leave of absence program for military service, medical events, and parental leave.
- Full 401(k) retirement plan for eligible full-time employees.
- Company-funded commuter benefits.
- Free access to an on-site gym.
About Rune Technologies
Rune is here to revolutionize the status quo through the deployment of AI-enabled predictive logistics solutions. Combining elite Silicon Valley software expertise with deep operational experience working in and with the Department of Defense, Rune builds cutting-edge software to solve the most critical sustainment and logistics challenges faced by the U.S. military and its allies in contested environments at the tactical and operational levels. Rune’s mission is to support and enable the military logistics and sustainment communities with software to meet needs for the next fight.