Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Own the scalable backend platform that supports our worldwide real-time services
• Ensure our platform is secure, reliable, and performant
• Build our platform infrastructure and tooling
• Rapidly prototype new project ideas for customers and internal stakeholders
• Work with cross-functional hardware and autonomy teams to solve challenges like streaming and displaying live drone data for non-technical users in a variety of formats

Requirements

• A Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in computer science or a related field and 6+ years of experience shipping high-quality code and building robust infrastructure
• Experience building backend platforms, from the infrastructure up to the API layer (bonus if you've built real-time data platforms, scalable microservice architectures, and dealing with security & encryption requirements)
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) and are comfortable switching between software engineering and Cloud DevOps
• Familiarity with serverless architecture, and understand the tradeoffs between performance and cost when running servers at scale
• Excellent attention to detail, especially around scalability, performance, and security
• You take a creative approach to problem-solving and have exceptional analytical skills
• You thrive in a dynamic environment with changing needs and requirements
• You want to work independently and in a small team, take initiative, and communicate effectively across the organization
• Ability to pass fingerprint-based background check

Nice to Have

• Experience with real-time data platforms
• Experience with scalable microservice architectures
• Experience dealing with security & encryption requirements
• Experience with third-party APIs such as Live911 and Twilio
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer tools, and test infrastructure

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering
• Degree in computer science or a related field

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for our employees and their families
• 401K plan
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Paid time off
• Flexible work environment
• Orca pass (for those in Puget Sound)
• Free parking (Seattle office)
• Free snacks, drinks and espresso (Seattle office)