[Remote] Software Engineer, Backend
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Swarm Aero is redefining air power by developing swarming unmanned aerial vehicles and command-and-control software for autonomous aircraft networks. The Software Engineer, Backend will architect and build real-time distributed systems, telemetry pipelines, and backend infrastructure for coordinating large-scale heterogeneous aircraft swarms under intermittent communications.
Responsibilities
- Help architect the backend for a C2 system directing swarms of heterogeneous aircraft
- Build distributed, collaborative real-time infrastructure for controlling large numbers of aircraft simultaneously, even when comms drop
- Design and build the services that ingest, process, and distribute dense vehicle telemetry, sensor data, scheduling, crew resources, and data link management, much of it with no existing playbook to follow
- Own backend features end to end, from design through deployment
- Ship early, ship often, backed by strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps
Skills
- • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- • 6+ years building complex backend systems with real distributed systems depth
- • Strong instincts for reliability, performance, and scalability, and the tools to back them up
- • Built and operated production backend services and APIs at scale
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
- • Experience with real-time and event-driven distributed systems
- • A track record with performance-sensitive, high-throughput application development
- • Familiarity with messaging and streaming protocols
- • Experience operating systems under degraded or intermittent connectivity
- • Experience with geospatial data or applications
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401k
- PTO and paid sick leave
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Daily catered lunch (office)
- Paid parental leave
- Direct impact on a critical national security mission
- A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems
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