Senior Backend Engineer - Flight Safety Platform

BeaconAI; San Carlos; Hybrid; ARS 227,183,000 - 318,057,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare: 100% of employee medical

PTO and company holidays

401(k) offered (no current match)

Job summary

Beacon AI in San Carlos, CA, seeks a Staff Backend Software Engineer to own and scale backend services, APIs, and data pipelines for mission-critical aviation safety systems. You will balance hands-on development with technical leadership, collaborating with product and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, secure software that powers real-world applications.

You’ll design real-time data streams, build distributed services, and lead architectural decisions while expanding ownership from

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience building backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Proficient in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js).
• Experience designing secure, scalable APIs and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain backend services and distributed systems.
• Design and implement secure, scalable APIs for real-time data streaming.
• Build and optimize data pipelines for time-series and multimedia data.
• Own backend reliability, performance, and production scalability.
• Lead technical design discussions and code reviews.
• Troubleshoot complex backend and cloud issues to maintain high availability.

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js)

API design

Data pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Code reviews

DevOps/DevSecOps

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Beacon AI in San Carlos, CA, seeks a Staff Backend Software Engineer to own and scale backend services, APIs, and data pipelines for mission-critical aviation safety systems. You will balance hands-on development with technical leadership, collaborating with product and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, secure software that powers real-world applications.

You’ll design real-time data streams, build distributed services, and lead architectural decisions while expanding ownership from