Senior Backend Engineer — Platform & Telemetry (Hybrid)

Matternet; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

401(k)

Unlimited PTO

Company holidays

FSA

Job summary

Matternet is building the future of delivery with autonomous drone networks. The Senior Backend Engineer will join the platform team that builds and runs the backend, data, and infrastructure services behind Matternet's delivery network.

You’ll own significant services from design through deployment, work on Node.js/TypeScript, GraphQL APIs, and the data pipelines that move flight and telemetry data, and help ensure reliability and security in a safety-critical environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and operating production backend systems.
• Strong backend proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript and API design.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, containers and CI/CD.
• Solid grounding in relational databases and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver backend services and APIs for delivery operations and partner integrations.
• Build and extend the data pipelines that ingest and process flight, vehicle, and telemetry data.
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of services that support live operations.
• Drive software verification, deployment, and observability across production systems.
• Provide technical support, triaging and resolving production and field issues.
• Collaborate with onboard software, operations, product, and safety teams.

Skills

Node.js/TypeScript

API design

GraphQL/REST

Relational databases

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Observability/Monitoring

Technical communication

Tools

NestJS

Next.js

Kafka

MQTT

Job description

Matternet is building the future of delivery with autonomous drone networks. The Senior Backend Engineer will join the platform team that builds and runs the backend, data, and infrastructure services behind Matternet's delivery network.

You’ll own significant services from design through deployment, work on Node.js/TypeScript, GraphQL APIs, and the data pipelines that move flight and telemetry data, and help ensure reliability and security in a safety-critical environment.