Raydar
Backend Software Engineer
$145K–$300K
Alameda, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- About 4 to 8 years running production cloud and distributed systems; more senior engineers with relevant hands-on skills are also welcome.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree.
About the job
Own the backend of a cloud platform that collects, processes, stores, and serves operational data from remote equipment, from design through production operation.
What you'll do
- Build, operate, release, and troubleshoot cloud services and interfaces for equipment data.
- Lead cross-repository work in an established codebase, improving reliability, capacity, and resilience.
- Design data schemas and databases and collaborate with interface-focused colleagues on dependent applications.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Experience with AWS or another major cloud provider, plus backend, database, API, distributed-service, and data-modeling fundamentals.
- Comfort working in the defense industry and ability to commute to the SF Bay Area office 3 days a week; relocation support is not offered.
Nice to have
- Experience owning production cloud or distributed services from build through operation.
- Exposure to robotics, aerospace, IoT, physical-world systems, live data feeds, telemetry, or location-based data.
Pay
USD 145,000 to 300,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript, AWS
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