Staff Software Engineer, Real-Time Systems

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

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

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

WHY THIS ROLE You'll be one of the earliest engineers shaping how humans command autonomous systems at scale, work that's currently being defined in real time, by a small team, with your fingerprints on the architecture. If you want to build the future of human-swarm interaction rather than maintain someone else's, this is that seat.