Staff Backend Engineer – Distributed Production Systems

Roboticsconnected; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) retirement plan

Equity grants for new hires

Unlimited PTO

Holiday calendar

Job summary

Firestorm is hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer to help build the core backend of Crucible. The backend is currently TypeScript-based with GraphQL and Prisma, and will evolve with the product.

You will design production planning workflows, models, and integrations across cloud, factory, and air-gapped environments. You will own core system models, ensure distributed operation, and partner with architecture on boundaries and direction.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and shipping backend or distributed software in production.
• U.S. person due to ITAR regulations.
• Strong backend software engineering fundamentals and judgment selecting technologies and designs.
• Strong experience with at least one modern backend language.
• Strong relational data modeling, API design, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience designing systems with complex state, workflows, and consistency requirements.
• Experience operating and debugging production software.
• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous technical problems from design through deployment.

Responsibilities

• Build Crucible's backend — Design and ship the services, APIs, data models, and workflows behind production planning and execution.
• Own core system models — Define how Crucible represents production, materials, inventory, resources, work, and operational state.
• Design for distributed operation — Build systems that behave correctly across cloud, factory, and disconnected deployments, including synchronization, reconciliation, and failure recovery.
• Build durable integrations — Connect Crucible to PLM, ERP, quality, test, optimization, and other production systems through clear interfaces and ownership boundaries.
• Make the system reliable — Improve performance, observability, testing, and failure handling for software used to run real production.
• Partner on architecture — Work with software leadership and architecture on service boundaries, data ownership, system interfaces, and technical direction.
• Raise the engineering bar — Review critical code and designs, improve development practices, and help other engineers solve difficult backend problem

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

APIs & design

TypeScript/Node.js

GraphQL

ITAR compliance

Relational data modeling

Production debugging

Tools

Prisma

Job description

Firestorm is hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer to help build the core backend of Crucible. The backend is currently TypeScript-based with GraphQL and Prisma, and will evolve with the product.

You will design production planning workflows, models, and integrations across cloud, factory, and air-gapped environments. You will own core system models, ensure distributed operation, and partner with architecture on boundaries and direction.