Staff Software Engineer, Real-Time Systems

🕒 September 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $310k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Swarm Aero

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11 - 50 employees

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

🚀 Aerospace

💰 Pre Seed Round on 2022-04

Manufacturing • Logistics • Aerospace

Swarm Aero is a pioneering aerospace company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms. Their innovative approach focuses on collaborative autonomy and mission-level adaptability, allowing teams to control swarms of UAVs for various applications including cargo delivery, disaster response, and military operations. By leveraging cutting-edge materials and processes, Swarm Aero aims to redefine air power and deliver overwhelming operational capabilities in contested environments.

📋 Description

• Help architect the backend for Legion's Command & Control system directing swarms of heterogeneous aircraft • Build distributed, collaborative real-time infrastructure for controlling large numbers of aircraft simultaneously, including when communications drop • Design and build services that ingest, process, and distribute vehicle telemetry, sensor data, scheduling, crew resources, and data link management • Own backend features end to end, from design through deployment • Ship early and often with strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps • Shape how humans command autonomous systems at scale

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • 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 • Must meet the citizenship requirements to obtain a U.S. security clearance • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company • Competitive base salary commensurate with experience • 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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