Senior Staff Backend Engineer – Real-Time Drone Swarm C2

Swarmaero; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Medical, dental, vision

401k

PTO & sick leave

Wellness stipend

Office lunch

Parental leave

Job summary

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. You’ll help architect the backend for Legion's Command & Control platform: the systems that let a single operator plan, direct, and execute missions across a networked swarm of heterogeneous aircraft, in real time.

This role focuses on real-time distributed systems, high-throughput telemetry pipelines, and infrastructure for a problem space that barely has prior

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years building complex backend systems with real distributed systems depth.
• Strong instincts for reliability, performance, and scalability, and the tools to back them up.
• Built and operated production backend services and APIs at scale.

Responsibilities

• Help architect the backend for a C2 system directing swarms of heterogeneous aircraft
• Build distributed, collaborative real‑time infrastructure for controlling large numbers of aircraft simultaneously
• Design and build the services that ingest, process, and distribute dense vehicle telemetry, sensor data, scheduling, crew resources, and data link management
• Own backend features end to end, from design through deployment
• Ship early, ship often, backed by strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps

Skills

Real distributed systems

Reliability and performance

Production backend services

APIs at scale

Messaging protocols

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Job description

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. You’ll help architect the backend for Legion's Command & Control platform: the systems that let a single operator plan, direct, and execute missions across a networked swarm of heterogeneous aircraft, in real time.

This role focuses on real-time distributed systems, high-throughput telemetry pipelines, and infrastructure for a problem space that barely has prior