Backend Software Engineer - Distribution

Rune Technologies is here to revolutionize the status quo of military logistics and sustainment through the deployment of AI-enabled 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 logistics challenges faced by the U.S. military and its allies.

Rune’s flagship product is TyrOS, an advanced software platform designed to enhance logistics at tactical and operational echelons, providing unified, comprehensive management of inventory, personnel, equipment, and distribution. TyrOS integrates critical information for holistic, data-driven logistics decisions, leveraging AI for decision support, predictive analytics, and optimization at machine speed.

Rune’s mission is to support and enable the military logistics and sustainment communities with software built to meet the needs of the next fight.

The Distribution team at Rune is building the software that determines how supplies, equipment, and other critical resources move through complex logistics networks — from requirements and inventory availability through planning, allocation, routing, dispatch, tracking, and delivery.

Military distribution is a dynamic systems problem. Routes change. Transportation assets become unavailable. Priorities shift. Inventory moves. Communications degrade. Threat conditions evolve. The software supporting these decisions has to continuously reconcile changing information and turn it into reliable, executable actions.

As a Backend Software Engineer focused on Distribution , you will design and build the production systems at the center of these workflows. You’ll own services that model logistics networks, coordinate movement across nodes and transportation modes, manage state across distributed systems, and enable users to rapidly plan and replan as operational conditions change.

This is not a generic backend role. We are particularly interested in engineers who have built software where system decisions directly affect real-world operations — logistics, transportation, fulfillment, routing, dispatch, warehousing, marketplace operations, supply chain, or similar domains.

You will work closely with product engineers, optimization engineers, military domain experts, and platform teams to translate complicated operational workflows into resilient, scalable software. The result is a distribution capability that can operate from enterprise environments to the tactical edge and give military users a dramatically better way to understand, plan, and execute logistics movements.

Own the architecture and development of backend services supporting Rune’s distribution capabilities across TyrOS.

Design systems that support end-to-end logistics workflows including: Transportation and movement planning Routing and dispatch Shipment creation and execution Asset and capacity allocation Multi-modal transportation Scheduling and time-window management Tracking and status reconciliation Dynamic replanning when conditions change

Transportation and movement planning

Routing and dispatch

Shipment creation and execution

Asset and capacity allocation

Multi-modal transportation

Scheduling and time-window management

Tracking and status reconciliation

Dynamic replanning when conditions change

Translate real-world logistics workflows into durable domain models, APIs, services, and event-driven systems.

Build systems that reconcile inventory, demand, transportation capacity, location, time, priority, and other operational constraints across distributed networks.

Develop performant, production-grade services in Go and integrate them directly into TyrOS and the broader Rune platform.

Integrate optimization and planning capabilities into operational software, turning algorithmic recommendations into reliable, understandable, and executable workflows.

Design systems capable of handling partial, delayed, conflicting, or changing information while maintaining a reliable representation of operational state.

Build APIs, messaging patterns, data pipelines, and backend infrastructure that allow distribution services to communicate effectively across Rune’s product ecosystem.

Design for environments where bandwidth, connectivity, compute, latency, and system availability may all be constrained.

Partner directly with military users and domain experts to understand how distribution actually operates, identify the highest-leverage problems, and convert ambiguous requirements into scalable software.

Make architectural decisions that balance speed of development with long-term reliability, maintainability, and extensibility.

Establish strong engineering practices around testing, observability, performance, failure recovery, and operational resilience.

Provide technical leadership to other engineers through system design, code review, mentorship, and ownership of complex cross-functional initiatives.