Staff Software Engineer, Real-Time Systems
Swarm Aero2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$200k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect the backend for Legion’s Command & Control system directing heterogeneous aircraft swarms.
- Build distributed, collaborative real-time infrastructure for controlling large numbers of aircraft, including during communications outages.
- Design services that ingest, process, and distribute vehicle telemetry, sensor data, scheduling, crew resources, and data-link management information.
- Own backend features end to end from design through deployment.
- Deliver systems with strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- At least 6 years of experience building complex backend systems with substantial distributed-systems depth.
- Experience building and operating production backend services and APIs at scale.
- Strong focus on reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Experience with real-time and event-driven distributed systems, performance-sensitive high-throughput applications, messaging and streaming protocols, degraded or intermittent connectivity, or geospatial data and applications.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company.
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience.
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401k benefits.
- PTO and paid sick leave.
- Monthly wellness stipend.
- Daily catered lunch at the office.
- Paid parental leave.
- Direct impact on a critical national security mission.
- ITAR eligibility is required: applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, protected individuals, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
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About Swarm Aero
Swarm Aero develops swarming unmanned aircraft and command-and-control software that coordinate thousands of heterogeneous autonomous drones for defense and national security operations. The privately held company, founded in 2022, is building an aircraft purpose-built for swarm deployments and a distributed perception and sensor-fusion stack to give operators a shared picture of the battlespace.