Control Center Backend Engineer - Real-Time Fleet Ops

Decisive Point; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k retirement

PTO (paid time off)

Equity options

Stipends

Job summary

Applied Intuition, Inc. is building the central control center software that connects autonomous fleets to human operators across multiple industries.

You will own key backend domains, delivering low-latency, reliable services across cloud and on-prem environments while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure safety and reliability. We seek engineers with 4+ years in distributed systems, strong Go/C++/Python skills, and hands-on experience with streaming data, APIs, and scalable

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, building, operating production distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Go, C++ or Python.
• Experience with real-time data streaming and event-driven architectures.
• Strong API design, data modeling and distributed-consensus fundamentals.
• Experience owning CI/CD, telemetry, on-call rotation and root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement and maintain core control center subsystems from telemetry ingestion to live asset state tracking and mission orchestration.
• Design cloud and edge services where performance and correctness impact safety.
• Collaborate with autonomy, perception and vehicle-platform teams to define robust APIs and data protocols.
• Build resilient data pipelines and APIs for high-volume vehicle metrics and state updates.
• Deploy, observe and harden SaaS services across cloud, private infra, and on-prem environments.
• Work with field engineers to debug live fleet operations and improve platform reliability.

Skills

Backend systems

Real-time data

System design & API

Production ownership

Product ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

gRPC

Time-series DBs

CAN/MQTT/DDS/SOME/IP

Some/IP

Job description

Applied Intuition, Inc. is building the central control center software that connects autonomous fleets to human operators across multiple industries.

You will own key backend domains, delivering low-latency, reliable services across cloud and on-prem environments while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure safety and reliability. We seek engineers with 4+ years in distributed systems, strong Go/C++/Python skills, and hands-on experience with streaming data, APIs, and scalable