Remote Staff Software Engineer: OTA & Distributed Systems

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Equity package

Health/Dental/Vision

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Horizon3 AI is seeking an Expert Engineer for the OTA Services team to architect and deliver over-the-air updates for NodeZero across diverse environments. You will write production code, define architectures, and mentor P4 engineers while collaborating with the Image Build team. This remote role reports to the Client Platform Engineering Manager.

The role emphasizes scalable update delivery in constrained environments, with a focus on reliability, security, and leadership across teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, focused on distributed systems or fleet management.
• Deep understanding of remote update system design, delivery protocols, version negotiation, and rollback semantics.
• Experience designing rollout strategies for software across heterogeneous environments.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust for systems-level work.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the OTA update system architecture and rollout orchestration.
• Manage deployment fleet state across thousands of deployments.
• Develop safe rollout strategies including canaries and pinning.
• Create delivery mechanisms for air-gapped or restricted networks.
• Ensure OTA reliability and lead incident response for failures and drift.
• Mentor mid-to-senior engineers and drive architectural decisions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Remote update systems

Fleet management

Go/Python/Rust

Kubernetes

Security & mTLS

System design

Tools

Kubernetes

OCI artifacts

image manifests

layer caching

registry protocol

Job description

Horizon3 AI is seeking an Expert Engineer for the OTA Services team to architect and deliver over-the-air updates for NodeZero across diverse environments. You will write production code, define architectures, and mentor P4 engineers while collaborating with the Image Build team. This remote role reports to the Client Platform Engineering Manager.

The role emphasizes scalable update delivery in constrained environments, with a focus on reliability, security, and leadership across teams.