Senior Software Engineer

CHAOS Industries•San Francisco, CA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. The Role We're looking for a software engineer to build the backend systems that power our sensor infrastructure — the services that ingest, process, and serve data from radar, RF, and other sensing systems at scale. You'll design and operate cloud-native systems on Azure, working alongside systems, hardware, and software engineers in a small team with high autonomy. This is an early-stage role with outsized impact. You'll define architecture decisions, ship production code, and see your work protecting people's lives.

Requirements

3+ years of professional software development experience
Strong proficiency in Python
Experience designing and operating scalable backend systems in cloud environments (Azure strongly preferred)
Track record of building and supporting production systems — you've been on-call, debugged outages, and shipped under pressure
Proficiency with modern engineering practices: git, unit testing, CI/CD, code review
Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or permanent resident) — required for access to controlled technology
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Nice To Haves

Experience at a top-tier technology company building systems at scale
Background building data-intensive pipelines, streaming architectures, or real-time systems
Experience with infrastructure-as-code, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud-native architecture on Azure
Interest in defense, aerospace, or national security technology
Active Secret or Top Secret clearance
TypeScript/React frontend experience
2D/3D data visualization (mapping, geospatial, point clouds)
Software Defined Radio or RF/IQ data processing experience
Sensor development background (radars, EO/IR, EW, sensor fusion)
Additional languages: Rust, Node.js, Java, Bash
COTS hardware integration experience

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable backend services in Python that process and serve sensor data on Azure
Architect cloud infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and release processes
Work directly with hardware and systems engineering teams to integrate software with physical sensor systems
Define software architecture decisions as a foundational member of the team
Mentor engineers as the team grows
Travel periodically to other offices (LA, DC) and customer sites