Senior Edge & Distributed Systems Engineer

webAI Public Sector, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health benefits

401k match

Equity options

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Continuing education support

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Free parking

Job summary

webAI Public Sector, Inc. seeks engineers to drive secure, resilient, and distributed data systems at the tactical edge. You will architect software across edge nodes, mobile endpoints, and cloud sync services to operate in DDIL environments.

Join a team building store-and-forward, local discovery, and offline-first systems with DTN principles, CRDTs, and content-addressable storage, delivering robust performance in challenging field conditions.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of software engineering experience building robust systems software or distributed networking services.
• Core Languages: Strong proficiency in Rust or other systems level languages (Go, C, or C++).
• Resilient Networking Expertise: Demonstrated experience with store-and-forward architectures, delay-tolerant networks (DTN), async I/O, or local device-to-device transport layers (e.g., BLE, TCP/IP, socket-level async networking).
• Edge & Offline First Mindset: Practical experience solving synchronization challenges under intermittent, contested, or low-throughput network constraints (DDIL).

Responsibilities

• Architect Resilient Transport & Sync Layers: Design and implement store-and-forward transport and data synchronization protocols tailored for low-bandwidth, high-latency, and DDIL field conditions.
• Ad-Hoc Networking & Discovery: Implement local peer discovery and async I/O transports operating over heterogeneous physical links, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/BLE, and ad-hoc mesh networks.
• Field Ready Systems Engineering: Apply delay tolerant networking (DTN) principles and local conflict-free data synchronization (e.g., CRDTs and content-addressable storage) to ensure mission critical applications function offline indefinitely.
• Integration with Core Components: Integrate applied software components deployed at the edge with core infrastructure.
• Performance & Resource Optimization: Employ memory management and debugging techniques against resource-constrained systems to improve our network.
• Security & Cryptographic Primitives: Understand and implement various authorization and authentication security patterns, suitable for DDIL and contested environments.
• Cross Functional Collaboration: Partner with hardware, mobile, and forward-deployed teams to validate end-to-end functionality under simulated and live field constraints.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

DTN

Edge computing

Async I/O

Job description

webAI Public Sector, Inc. seeks engineers to drive secure, resilient, and distributed data systems at the tactical edge. You will architect software across edge nodes, mobile endpoints, and cloud sync services to operate in DDIL environments.

Join a team building store-and-forward, local discovery, and offline-first systems with DTN principles, CRDTs, and content-addressable storage, delivering robust performance in challenging field conditions.