Principal Software Engineer, Real-Time Rust & React

echodynecorp; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSU program

Full medical, dental & vision coverage

Commuter benefits

Company paid life insurance

Paid holidays

Job summary

Echodyne is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to build our next-generation radar software platform. You will architect robust solutions, collaborating across engineering, product, and UX to ensure performance in real-world environments.

Lead core components, transform prototypes to production, and mentor teams while strengthening security and reliability for defense and automotive applications.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building customer-facing, production-grade software systems.
• Strong experience with modern full-stack development including React front-ends and async back-end services (Tokio/Rust or similar).
• Experience with modular architectures, API contracts, and robust service lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Deliver core platform components: async backend services, APIs, and real-time data models.
• Collaborate with React/front-end teams to enable shared components and observability dashboards.
• Migrate prototypes to production with well-tested endpoints and good instrumentation.
• Design for resilience, security hardening, and offline scenarios.
• Improve CI/CD, testing, and reliability budgets; mentor peers and guide design decisions.

Skills

React front-end

Tokio/Rust back-end

Python

C/C++

System architecture

Mentoring peers

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Echodyne is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to build our next-generation radar software platform. You will architect robust solutions, collaborating across engineering, product, and UX to ensure performance in real-world environments.

Lead core components, transform prototypes to production, and mentor teams while strengthening security and reliability for defense and automotive applications.