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Senior Backend Software Engineer
Not specifiedFull-timeBackend DevelopmentAviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
Join an aerospace technology company building backend services and infrastructure that provide reliable connectivity for autonomous systems across air, land, and maritime environments. Own production services from architecture through deployment and operations across cloud and on-premises platforms.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and data models
- Own services from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement
- Develop reliable, secure, observable, performant, and highly available systems across cloud and on-premises environments
- Improve containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and internal developer tooling
- Define metrics, dashboards, alerts, and SLOs; lead root-cause analysis and long-term remediation
- Troubleshoot distributed-system, integration, and production issues
- Contribute to architecture decisions and engineering standards, review code, create reusable patterns, and mentor engineers
- Collaborate with Product, Firmware, Hardware, and R&D teams to deliver robust solutions
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including production backend systems
- Strong knowledge of backend architecture, distributed systems, API design, databases, data modeling, scalability, and performance
- Experience owning production services across deployment, observability, debugging, incident response, and root-cause analysis
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code
- Experience supporting cloud and on-premises environments
- Strong programming skills in a modern backend language; Python experience is relevant
- System-level understanding of Linux, networking, security practices, IAM, and secrets management
- Experience with mission-critical, platform, SaaS, security, cyber, or SRE systems
- Ability to make pragmatic architecture decisions, produce quality code, conduct reviews, mentor engineers, and communicate technical tradeoffs
Nice to have
- Experience with Go or Rust
- Experience with C or C++
- Familiarity with high-availability or multi-cloud architectures