Backend Software Engineer, LiveOps

Role Overview

We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to take ownership of key components of our software systems, contributing to the design, development, and optimization of our technology. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams, leveraging your technical expertise to deliver high-quality, scalable software solutions.

What You Will Do

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, and rapidly prototype new project ideas for customers and internal stakeholders.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a fast-paced startup environment and make a significant impact on the company's success. You'll have the chance to 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
• 1+ years of experience shipping high-quality code and building robust infrastructure
• Experience building backend platforms, from the infrastructure up to the API layer
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
• Familiarity with serverless architecture
• Excellent attention to detail, especially around scalability, performance, and security

Benefits

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