havocai - Senior Backend Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
Requirements
• 6+ years of experience in backend engineering, distributed systems engineering, or related software engineering roles • Strong expertise in Go and building highly concurrent systems • Experience designing and operating highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems at scale • Experience with consensus and coordination primitives, such as etcd, Raft, leader election, or similar patterns for multi-zone deployments • Strong API design and system architecture skills • Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments • Deep understanding of performance optimization, data structures, and system design • Ability to drive projects from concept through production • Strong technical judgment and ability to operate independently in fast-moving environments • Strong written and verbal communication skills • U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance • Experience with IoT, robotics, autonomous systems, or distributed hardware systems • Strong networking fundamentals and debugging experience • Experience with AWS or cloud-based infrastructure • Familiarity with embedded systems or hardware integration • Experience supporting mission-critical, real-world deployed systems • Experience working in small, fast-moving engineering teams or high-growth technology companies • Active or prior security clearance • WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
Responsibilities
• TECHNICAL OWNERSHIP • Drive execution and technical excellence across backend projects • Set engineering standards, conduct code reviews, and guide architectural decisions • Contribute to backend roadmap and delivery in partnership with product and engineering leadership • Foster a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement • BACKEND ARCHITECTURE & DEVELOPMENT • Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly concurrent backend services in Go • Architect distributed systems that support high throughput, reliability, and real-time operations • Define service boundaries, APIs, and data models across systems • Design services for high availability and fault tolerance across availability zones • Evolve singleton services into multi-zone, distributed deployments • SYSTEM PERFORMANCE & RELIABILITY • Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and resilience • Identify and resolve bottlenecks in distributed systems and concurrency-heavy workloads • Ensure systems meet high standards for uptime and operational reliability • Improve observability, maintainability, and operational readiness of backend services • CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION • Partner with frontend, platform, autonomy, and embedded teams to integrate services across applications and devices • Support end-to-end system design from edge devices to cloud infrastructure • Contribute to system-level architecture across the stack • Help align backend capabilities with product, platform, and mission needs • SECURITY & BEST PRACTICES • Enforce secure development practices across backend systems • Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and reliability • Support technical reviews, design discussions, and production readiness efforts • Build systems with security, scalability, and long-term maintainability in mind • You will also have built strong alignment across platform, autonomy, embedded, frontend, and product teams while helping ensure HavocAI’s backend systems are ready to support mission-critical autonomous operations.
Benefits
• $175K – $200K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Our openings span more than one career level. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, and market demands. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • We can only hire US Citizens due to our specific industry and government contracts. • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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