Kela Technologies
Software Engineer- LA
USA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering.
About the job
Build and own production software for defense technology products across embedded, real-time, cloud, and data systems.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and deploy core software systems; write maintainable, tested, documented code.
- Lead technical design reviews, collaborate with hardware and systems teams, and own reliability, observability, incident response, and root-cause resolution.
- Hire and mentor junior engineers and improve team standards through code review.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of professional software engineering with demonstrable production-system ownership.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and systems design.
- Fluency in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, C/C++, or TypeScript; experience designing and maintaining distributed systems or service-oriented architectures.
- Working English, written and verbal.
Nice to have
- Experience in defense, aerospace, robotics, or other regulated/safety-critical domains; real-time or embedded software or working close to hardware.
- Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, or platform engineering; familiarity with AWS GovCloud or Azure Government; prior work on C2 systems, sensor fusion, or autonomous systems.
Tools
Python, Go, Rust, C/C++, TypeScript, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government
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