Staff Software Engineer, Real-Time Systems

The role

You will help architect the backend for the Legion Command & Control platform. This involves building distributed real-time infrastructure to control large numbers of heterogeneous aircraft.

What you will do

• 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
• 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 using CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps

Required qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 6+ years building complex backend systems with real distributed systems depth
• Built and operated production backend services and APIs at scale
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance
• 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 St

Nice to have

• 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
• Active Secret clearance

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Competitive base salary
• Medical, dental, vision, and 401k
• PTO and paid sick leave
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Daily catered lunch (office)
• Paid parental leave

Before you apply

• ITAR requirement: 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 fr
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance

About the company

Swarm Aero is building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The team has aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.