CHAOS Industries

Defense

SeniorSoftwareEngineer

$130–220k San Francisco, California, United States
The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer at CHAOS Industries. Skills: Backend services, Cloud infrastructure, Data pipelines. Design backend services. Build backend services”

Industry & Context.

Defense
Problems you'll solve

Debugging outages

Eligibility Requirements

U. S. Person, Obtain security clearance, Travel periodically, On-call

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years professional software development, Proficiency in Python, Experience designing scalable backend systems, Experience operating scalable backend systems, Experience building production systems, Experience supporting production systems, Experience being on-call, Experience debugging outages, Experience shipping under pressure, Proficiency with git, Proficiency with unit testing, Proficiency with CI/CD, Proficiency with code review, Must be a U. S. Person, Ability to obtain security clearance

Nice to Have

Experience at top-tier tech company, Experience building systems at scale, Experience building data-intensive pipelines, Experience building streaming architectures, Experience building real-time systems, Experience with infrastructure-as-code, Experience with containerization, Experience with Docker, Experience with Kubernetes, Experience with cloud-native architecture, Experience with Azure, Interest in defense technology, Interest in aerospace technology, Interest in national security technology

What You'll Do.

Design backend services

Build backend services

Architect cloud infrastructure

Build CI/CD pipelines

Maintain CI/CD pipelines

Build testing infrastructure

Maintain testing infrastructure

Build release processes

Maintain release processes

Integrate software with systems

Define software architecture

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Systems engineering teams; Hardware engineering teams; Software engineering teams

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