Senior Software Engineer, Backend

BRINC Drones

full-time

Posted on: 9/19/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Washington

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💰 $121,500 - $220,000 per year

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About the role

Own the scalable backend platform that supports our worldwide real-time services
Ensure our platform is secure, reliable, and performant
Build our platform infrastructure and tooling
Rapidly prototype new project ideas for customers and internal stakeholders
Work with cross-functional hardware and autonomy teams to solve challenges like streaming and displaying live drone data for non-technical users in a variety of formats

A Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in computer science or a related field and 6+ years of experience shipping high-quality code and building robust infrastructure
Experience building backend platforms, from the infrastructure up to the API layer (bonus if you’ve built real-time data platforms, scalable microservice architectures, and dealing with security & encryption requirements)
Experience with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) and are comfortable switching between software engineering and Cloud DevOps
Familiarity with serverless architecture, and understand the tradeoffs between performance and cost when running servers at scale
Excellent attention to detail, especially around scalability, performance, and security