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”

What You'll Achieve.

Protecting people's lives

Industry & Context.

Defense
Problems you'll solve

Debugging outages

Eligibility Requirements

Travel periodically, U. S. Person required, Maintain security clearance

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

Operate cloud-native systems

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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