6 hours ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$165k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own backend services for ingesting, processing, and storing real-time and historical vehicle telemetry.
- Architect APIs serving vehicle and mission data to internal tools, customer dashboards, and integrations.
- Design data models and storage strategies for high-volume, time-series, and geospatial data.
- Build resilient systems that handle intermittent connectivity, delayed data, out-of-order data, and maritime edge cases.
- Improve the scalability, observability, and reliability of existing backend services as fleet size and data volume grow.
- Collaborate with vehicle software and UI teams to integrate new data sources and capabilities.
- Help define backend architecture, technical direction, and engineering best practices.
- Mentor other engineers and independently scope and lead backend projects.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience designing and scaling production systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar backend language.
- Strong experience with security principles and implementation.
- Deep experience designing REST and/or streaming APIs using technologies such as WebSocket and MQTT.
- Strong experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, and time-series or geospatial data modeling.
- Experience designing cloud infrastructure for reliability and cost efficiency at scale.
- Experience with distributed systems concepts including queuing, caching, eventual consistency, and unreliable networks.
- Experience building telemetry or IoT data pipelines for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or remote sensor fleets is a bonus.
- Familiarity with message queues or streaming platforms is a bonus.
- Experience with TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, PostGIS, Terraform, Docker, or Kubernetes is a bonus.
- Exposure to maritime, defense, or other real-time mission-critical systems is a bonus.
- Strong technical communication skills and the ability to independently lead backend projects.
Benefits
- Stock options.
- Competitive insurance, including a 99% employer-covered Gold HMO plan or other options.
- 401(k) matching up to 4% of salary.
- Four free lunches per week.
- Employee activity fund.
- Pet-friendly office.
- Unlimited/flexible PTO.
- San Diego, California in-office work arrangement.
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