Senior Backend Software Engineer
About The Position
CHAOS Industries is hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help build and operate the secure cloud platform behind advanced radar systems. The role works closely with software, hardware, and systems engineers to develop backend services and cloud infrastructure that ingest, process, and deliver mission-critical sensor data at scale. Systems must be reliable, resilient, secure, and performant in demanding real-world environments. This high-ownership role includes influencing architecture, building production systems, and helping establish engineering foundations for an evolving platform. The work spans Azure cloud infrastructure, real-time backend services, infrastructure automation, operational reliability, and cross-functional integration.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or permanent resident), as required for access to controlled technology.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
- Strong engineering fundamentals, curiosity, and ability to learn quickly.
- Enjoy building scalable backend systems and taking ownership of production services.
- Enjoy solving complex cloud infrastructure and distributed systems challenges.
- Care about reliability, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Communicate well and collaborate across software, hardware, and systems engineering teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Python and modern backend development.
- Experience with Azure or another major cloud platform.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD.
- Experience with real-time data pipelines or distributed systems.
- Frontend development experience using modern web technologies such as TypeScript and React, or willingness to work across the stack.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure for distributed radar systems and backend services.
- Develop high-performance backend services to ingest, process, and distribute real-time sensor data with low latency, reliability, and security at scale.
- Define infrastructure as code, automate deployments, and improve the platform using modern DevOps practices.
- Own observability, monitoring, resiliency, and operational readiness to keep production systems secure, scalable, and dependable.
- Help shape platform technical direction and make architectural decisions that support new capabilities, increasing scale, and long-term maintainability.
- Collaborate with software, hardware, and systems engineers to deliver secure, reliable end-to-end capabilities from sensor to cloud.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits fully paid for by the company.
- 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay.
- FSA and HSA.
- Life insurance.
- Free daily lunch.
- No-meeting Fridays.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Casual dress code.
- Generous pre-IPO stock option grants.
- Relocation assistance.
- Annual bonuses (coming soon).
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
