Staff Software Engineer, Real-Time Systems

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $310k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Swarm Aero

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2022

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 Seed on 2024-09

Aerospace • Defense • Manufacturing

Swarm Aero is a developer and manufacturer of uncrewed aerial systems built from the ground up for swarming operations. The company combines on-aircraft autonomy, a universal swarm node (sensor mesh and edge compute), and swarm-scale command-and-control so small teams can mobilize large numbers of UAVs in communications-limited or contested environments. Swarm Aero emphasizes high-rate composite manufacturing and concurrent factory design to scale production, and pursues both defense-focused applications (payloads in contested environments, detecting/tracking mobile assets, security/defense in depth) and civilian uses (cargo delivery, disaster response, resilient communications, environmental observation). The leadership team includes experienced aerospace engineers, high-production manufacturing leads, and senior military advisors.

📋 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