Staff Real-Time Systems Engineer – Drone Swarm (Equity)

Swarmaero; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Medical benefits

PTO

Wellness stipend

Catered lunch

Parental leave

Impactful work

Strong team

Job summary

Swarm Aero is building the world’s largest swarming UAV network and a real-time C2 platform to coordinate thousands of autonomous aircraft. The backend team handles distributed, high-throughput telemetry pipelines and data services to enable live mission planning and execution across intermit tent communications.

You will own backend features end to end, contributing to CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps practices in a high-growth defense-focused environment.

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, even when comms drop.
• Design and build 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

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Real-time systems

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Performance

Geospatial data

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Swarm Aero is building the world’s largest swarming UAV network and a real-time C2 platform to coordinate thousands of autonomous aircraft. The backend team handles distributed, high-throughput telemetry pipelines and data services to enable live mission planning and execution across intermit tent communications.

You will own backend features end to end, contributing to CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps practices in a high-growth defense-focused environment.