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Senior Backend Software Engineer in USA new

  • Seasats
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Diego, CA

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own backend services for ingesting, processing, and storing real-time and historical vehicle telemetry.
  • Architect APIs serving vehicle and mission data to internal tools, customer dashboards, and integrations.
  • Design data models and storage strategies for high-volume, time-series, and geospatial data.
  • Build resilient systems that handle intermittent connectivity, delayed data, out-of-order data, and maritime edge cases.
  • Improve the scalability, observability, and reliability of existing backend services as fleet size and data volume grow.
  • Collaborate with vehicle software and UI teams to integrate new data sources and capabilities.
  • Help define backend architecture, technical direction, and engineering best practices.
  • Mentor other engineers and independently scope and lead backend projects.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience designing and scaling production systems.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar backend language.
  • Strong experience with security principles and implementation.
  • Deep experience designing REST and/or streaming APIs using technologies such as WebSocket and MQTT.
  • Strong experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, and time-series or geospatial data modeling.
  • Experience designing cloud infrastructure for reliability and cost efficiency at scale.
  • Experience with distributed systems concepts including queuing, caching, eventual consistency, and unreliable networks.
  • Experience building telemetry or IoT data pipelines for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or remote sensor fleets is a bonus.
  • Familiarity with message queues or streaming platforms is a bonus.
  • Experience with TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, PostGIS, Terraform, Docker, or Kubernetes is a bonus.
  • Exposure to maritime, defense, or other real-time mission-critical systems is a bonus.
  • Strong technical communication skills and the ability to independently lead backend projects.

Benefits

  • Stock options.
  • Competitive insurance, including a 99% employer-covered Gold HMO plan or other options.
  • 401(k) matching up to 4% of salary.
  • Four free lunches per week.
  • Employee activity fund.
  • Pet-friendly office.
  • Unlimited/flexible PTO.
  • San Diego, California in-office work arrangement.

Salary: $165k - $220k/yr

Seasats

Seasats builds advanced unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) that revolutionize maritime data collection. Designed to operate autonomously for extended periods, our USVs provide critical monitoring and data acquisition services for defense, scientific, and commercial sectors, significantly changing h...

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