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# Software Engineer, Cloud

- **Company:** Saildrone, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Salary:** $144,500.0 - $322,742.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Databases, Data Systems, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, TypeScript, Data Processing, Cloud Platform System, Backend
- **Published:** September 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-cloud-saildrone-company-10151123

## About the Role

* Strong software engineering skills in Python, TypeScript, or both.
 * Experience building and operating production cloud or distributed systems.
 * Strong understanding of database fundamentals and data modeling.
 * Experience designing APIs and services that integrate distributed systems.
 * Experience with AWS or another major cloud platform.
 * Strong systems thinking and an ability to reason about reliability, performance, and failure modes.
 * Experience owning production software from design through deployment and operation.

NICE TO HAVE

 * Experience with real-time or streaming data systems.
 * Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, IoT, aerospace, defense, or other distributed physical systems.
 * Experience processing sensor, telemetry, video, or geospatial data.

## Description

Saildrone's autonomous vessels generate continuous streams of sensor, detection, and operational data that must become useful information for engineers and mission operators. As a Software Engineer, Cloud, you will build the cloud services that ingest, process, store, and expose that information across a distributed fleet.

You will work across backend software, data systems, and cloud infrastructure, building reliable services that connect autonomous vessels to the applications used to monitor and operate them., * Design, build, and operate production cloud services supporting autonomous vessels.

 * Develop backend services and APIs in Python and TypeScript.
 * Design data models and database systems for operational and sensor-derived data.
 * Build services that ingest and process data from distributed, intermittently connected vehicles.
 * Expose detection and operational information to downstream applications and mission operators.
 * Design for reliability, scalability, observability, and graceful handling of delayed or incomplete data.
 * Deploy, monitor, debug, and improve services running in AWS.


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