Senior Software Engineer, Backend Systems
Distributed Spectrum5 hours ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$180k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate reliable, observable, scalable backend services for the sensor fleet and customer base.
- Architect the platform’s agent layer, including tool-calling interfaces, orchestration, state management, memory, and evaluation harnesses.
- Own ML inference architecture, including model serving, batching, GPU/CPU scheduling, latency optimization, cost optimization, and inference APIs.
- Define backend service boundaries, data contracts, and API standards.
- Build production instrumentation, alerting, graceful degradation, and operational runbooks.
- Partner with ML researchers to move models from experimentation into production.
- Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and improve code quality and engineering practices.
Requirements
- 4–6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant backend or distributed-systems production work.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or a similar systems-capable language, with comfort moving between languages.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud provider, including compute, networking, storage, IAM, and managed data services.
- Experience building or integrating LLM or agent systems, including tool use, orchestration frameworks, RAG, evaluation, or comparable work.
- Experience serving ML models in production, such as with Triton, TorchServe, vLLM, or custom serving systems.
- Deep understanding of REST or gRPC APIs, asynchronous processing, message queues or streaming, and data consistency trade-offs.
- Track record of owning systems end to end and making long-lived architecture decisions.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS is nice to have.
- Background in signal processing, RF, geospatial, or high-volume time-series domains is nice to have.
- Experience with GPU programming or accelerated computing is nice to have.
- Familiarity with regulated or defense-adjacent environments and related security expectations is nice to have.
Benefits
- Above-market salary, equity, and benefits package.
- Early Series A equity.
- Excellent health, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) match of up to 4% of salary.
- Flexible PTO.
- Daily office lunches in the NYC office.
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About Distributed Spectrum
Distributed Spectrum builds software and sensor systems for radio spectrum intelligence, combining signal processing, machine learning, and embedded computing for defense and government operators. Its products collect and analyze RF data and run trained models on low-power devices to detect and interpret critical signals in the field. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held and venture-backed.