Senior Distributed Real-Time Systems Engineer

Jobtailor; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a seasoned software engineer to debug and optimize distributed real-time systems spanning software, messaging, networking, RF, and hardware. You will own cross-system debugging efforts, write production-grade code, and collaborate with hardware/SME teams to translate findings into system constraints.

Responsibilities include performance tuning, hardware boundary diagnostics, and contributing to system health metrics and observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience debugging distributed, real-time, or multi-service systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Debug and resolve cross-system issues spanning software, real-time messaging, networking, RF, and hardware.

Skills

C++ Programming

Python Programming

Real-Time Messaging

Networking Fundamentals

Linux Systems

RF Concepts

Hardware Diagnostics

Debugging Distributed Systems

Technical Communication

Tools

Multimeter

Oscilloscope

CI/CD Tools

Logging

Tracing

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a seasoned software engineer to debug and optimize distributed real-time systems spanning software, messaging, networking, RF, and hardware. You will own cross-system debugging efforts, write production-grade code, and collaborate with hardware/SME teams to translate findings into system constraints.

Responsibilities include performance tuning, hardware boundary diagnostics, and contributing to system health metrics and observability.