Horizon3AI
Staff Software Engineer, OTA Services
$230K–$260K
US, Remote · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Designs and operates the over-the-air update system that safely delivers, verifies, and rolls back NodeZero updates across customer deployments.
What you'll do
- Own OTA architecture, including delivery, version negotiation, rollout orchestration, health verification, and rollback.
- Manage deployment version state and design safe rollout strategies for varied and constrained customer environments.
- Own reliability and incident response, and mentor engineers through design and code reviews.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, remote update systems, or fleet management infrastructure.
- Deep understanding of remote update design and rollout strategies across heterogeneous customer-managed environments.
- Strong proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust; deep understanding of Kubernetes and container image distribution.
- Understanding of mTLS, certificate lifecycle, and secure channel establishment; experience setting technical standards and mentoring engineers.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes operators or controller patterns; familiarity with Fleet or similar fleet management tools.
- Cybersecurity or regulated/high-security environment experience; signed artifact delivery and chain-of-custody verification.
Pay
$229,500 - $260,000 annually (USD, base salary)
Tools
Go, Python, Rust, Kubernetes, OCI artifacts, mTLS, Fleet
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