Swarm Aero
Staff Software Engineer, Real-Time Systems
$200K–$310K
San Francisco · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years building complex backend systems.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance. ITAR eligibility: U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Architects and builds the real-time backend for a command-and-control platform coordinating large swarms of heterogeneous aircraft.
What you'll do
- Build distributed, collaborative infrastructure for controlling aircraft, including during communications outages.
- Design services to ingest, process, and distribute telemetry, sensor data, scheduling, crew resources, and data-link management.
- Own backend features from design through deployment, supported by CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps.
What they ask for
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years building complex backend systems with real distributed-systems depth.
- Strong reliability, performance, and scalability skills.
- Built and operated production backend services and APIs at scale.
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time or event-driven systems, high-throughput applications, messaging or streaming protocols, degraded connectivity, or geospatial applications.
- Active U.S. Secret clearance; preferred but not required.
Pay
$200K – $310K USD base salary
Tools
CI/CD, QA, DevSecOps
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