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Backend - Senior Software Engineer

role at

Delian Alliance Industries .

StrikeWeb is Delian’s real-time command and control platform for autonomous systems, delivering operational insight and coordination across a fleet of robotics agents in critical national security and defense applications. As a

Senior Backend Engineer , you’ll design and build the robust, scalable infrastructure that enables high-throughput data processing, real-time decision pipelines, and seamless integration across sensors and systems.

This mission-driven role is ideal for backend developers who are motivated by scale, reliability, and impact in production-critical environments.

Responsibilities

Design and develop scalable backend services that integrate and process real-time sensor data across distributed systems.

Build core infrastructure and deployment pipelines to support continuous delivery of StrikeWeb capabilities to production.

Develop testing frameworks for validating backend logic in both software-only and hardware-in-the-loop environments.

Benchmark application performance under load and drive systemic optimizations in latency, throughput, and resiliency.

Collaborate cross-functionally with frontend, robotics, DevOps, and product teams to deliver end-to-end capabilities from concept to field deployment.

Must have experience

5+ years of backend development experience, including building and deploying production-scale web services.

Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking fundamentals, and real-time or near-real-time application architectures.

Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++.

Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native services for compute, storage, and messaging.

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern build/deployment toolchains (e.g., GitHub Actions, Docker, Terraform).

Experience integrating with or building telemetry, monitoring, and alerting stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry).

Familiarity with API design for control systems or event-driven architectures (e.g., gRPC, Kafka, MQTT).

Nice to have experience

Exposure to robotics systems, embedded software, or high-throughput sensor data processing.

Experience with high-performance networking, stream processing frameworks, or time-series databases.

Background in security-focused or defense-related backend systems with reliability and auditability requirements.

Contributions to open-source backend frameworks, infrastructure tools, or monitoring systems.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Defense and Space Manufacturing

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