Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Moonware; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company specializing in airfield operations is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the infrastructure powering their HALO platform. The role requires at least 4 years of experience building and operating production systems and involves designing cloud architecture and implementing Infrastructure-as-Code. Ideal candidates will have strong knowledge of cloud-native environments and distributed systems. This position offers an opportunity to shape infrastructure strategy for a fast-growing technology platform in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as an engineer in production systems.
• Deep experience with cloud-native infrastructure, including networking.
• Strong automation practices and Infrastructure-as-Code experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the core infrastructure for HALO's real-time systems.
• Design scalable distributed systems for high-throughput workloads.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and maintain CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Cloud-native infrastructure (AWS or GCP)

Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)

Distributed systems knowledge

Backend languages (Go preferred)

CI/CD pipelines

Observability and reliability design

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About us

Moonware builds products to modernize airfield operations, providing the digital infrastructure to coordinate, optimize, and automate aircraft ground handling.

HALO, our flagship product, is used by airfield teams to optimize flight turnarounds. It serves as a centralized operating layer to manage and oversee tasks, communications, and performance. By enhancing operational visibility and control, HALO enables faster, more reliable, and standardized ground operations.

Our vision is to provide fully autonomous ground operations. HALO serves as the digital infrastructure to support that transition, connecting data, people, and machines to build toward automated airfields.

Moonware’s team combines aviation operations domain knowledge together with software and engineering expertise from top Silicon Valley tech companies. As we scale, we’re expanding the Moonware ecosystem to support the next generation of air transportation.

About the role

Moonware is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to lead and own the infrastructure that powers HALO, our Ground Traffic Control platform. In this role, you’ll architect, build, and operate the core systems that keep our real-time airfield operations running reliably, securely, and at scale. This is not a narrow SRE or backend-only role; it’s a deeply cross-functional engineering position. You’ll design cloud architecture, create resilient distributed systems, deploy high-availability services, and ensure the platform remains fast, observable, and fault-tolerant as we scale globally.

Responsibilities

Own the core infrastructure supporting HALO’s real-time systems: cloud environments, compute orchestration, networking, storage, and platform services

Design and build resilient, scalable distributed systems that handle high-throughput, mission-critical workloads

Implement and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, automated provisioning, and repeatable deployments across environments

Drive observability across the stack, including logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting

Define and enforce reliability, performance, and availability standards for all production systems

Partner with backend, data, and field engineering teams to understand operational constraints and incorporate learnings into architectural decisions

Implement robust CI/CD pipelines that support rapid iteration with confidence and safety

Improve platform security, including identity, access control, service hardening, and incident response readiness

Make foundational decisions around infrastructure strategy as we expand into autonomy, mobility, and global-scale operations

Requirements

4+ years of experience as an infrastructure, backend, or platform engineer building and operating production systems

Deep experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS or GCP), including VPCs, networking, container orchestration, load balancing, compute, and storage

Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) and automation practices

Solid understanding of distributed systems (concurrency, resiliency patterns, service mesh, message brokers, etc.)

Proficient in one or more backend languages (Go preferred, Java, or similar)

Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment management

Experience designing for observability and high reliability (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, monitoring)

Familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL databases and performance considerations

A product mindset: you care about solving the right problems and supporting customers and internal teams

Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Comfortable in fast-paced startup environments with high ownership and cross-functional impact

This role might be for you if

You love building the invisible foundation that keeps complex systems running

Reliability, high availability, and performance are things you obsess over

You enjoy working closely with real-world operational systems—not just abstract cloud workloads

You thrive owning large architectural surfaces that many teams depend on

Aviation, autonomy, and mobility excite you

You want to help shape the infrastructure strategy for a fast-growing, high-impact technology platform

Nice to haves

Experience operating real-time or event-driven systems (Kafka, MQTT, WebSockets, etc.)

Background in aviation, mobility, IoT, robotics, or logistics

Prior experience in an early-stage startup

Experience with edge computing, device communication, or fleet telemetry

Exposure to service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) or distributed tracing systems