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# Staff Software Engineer, Real-Time Systems

- **Company:** Swarm Aero
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Backend, SC Clearance, Information Technology, Live Streaming
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-real-time-systems-swarm-aero-9878435

## About the Role

* Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
 * 6+ years building complex backend systems with real distributed systems depth
 * Strong instincts for reliability, performance, and scalability, and the tools to back them up
 * Built and operated production backend services and APIs at scale

WHAT SETS YOU APART

 * Experience with real-time and event-driven distributed systems
 * A track record with performance-sensitive, high-throughput application development
 * Familiarity with messaging and streaming protocols
 * Experience operating systems under degraded or intermittent connectivity
 * Experience with geospatial data or applications
 * Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance. Active Secret clearance preferred but not required.

## Description

You'll be one of the earliest engineers shaping how humans command autonomous systems at scale, work that's currently being defined in real time, by a small team, with your fingerprints on the architecture. If you want to build the future of human-swarm interaction rather than maintain someone else's, this is that seat.