Staff Software Engineer

🚀 Staff Software Engineer – Real-Time Systems - US Citizen

Remote | US-based | $225K–$325K base + equity

We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help build complex real-time distributed systems supporting large-scale autonomous platforms.

This is a genuinely deep backend role. You’ll work on high-throughput telemetry, event-driven systems, command & control, intermittent connectivity, fault tolerance and systems operating at significant scale.

You’ll be working on:

• Real-time distributed systems

• High-throughput data & telemetry pipelines

• Resilient systems operating over intermittent communications

• Messaging, streaming & event-driven architectures

• Scalable backend infrastructure

• Architecture, technical leadership & end-to-end ownership

We’re looking for:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience

• Strong distributed systems/backend experience

• Proven production experience with reliability, performance & scale

• Experience with real-time or event-driven systems

• Strong software architecture skills

• Experience with messaging/streaming, telemetry or geospatial systems is a plus

🇺🇸 US citizenship is mandatory and non-negotiable due to the nature of the work and applicable US government regulations. Candidates must be based in the United States.

Compensation: $225K–$325K base + equity, depending on experience.

The application includes specific technical questions , so candidates should provide detailed answers based on their own experience, including their contribution, technical decisions, scale and outcomes.

📩 Interested? DM me for more information or to apply.