Senior Backend Software Engineer
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About Seasats:
At Seasats, we're passionate about delivering maritime robotics solutions to redefine the maritime industry. Our primary products are unmanned surface vessels (USVs), designed to carry sensors at sea for months at a time. Our USVs provide persistent monitoring and data acquisition to defense, scientific, and commercial customers, and have autonomously crossed both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. After thousands of years in which the only way to gather information from the ocean was to put people on a boat, these uncrewed vessels are transforming how humanity monitors and interacts with the ocean. Here, you'll find the space and opportunity to do your life's best work.
Along with your salary, you'll receive perks including:
Stock options
Competitive insurance (including a 99% employer-covered Gold HMO plan or other options)
401k matching up to 4% of salary
Four free lunches per week
An employee activity fund
A pet-friendly office
Unlimited/Flex PTO
Hiring Notes:
When applying, you'll be asked to provide a resume and answer a few screening questions.
Please note that we are currently unable to sponsor employment visas, so candidates must be independently authorized to work in the United States.
We appreciate diverse perspectives and life experiences, and we're committed to building a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds. Seasats provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination of any type based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law.
We look forward to reviewing your application!
Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and scaling production systems
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Strong experience in security principles and implementation
- Deep experience designing REST and/or streaming (WebSocket, MQTT) APIs
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, including designing for reliability and cost at scale
- Experience with distributed systems concepts: queuing, caching, eventual consistency, and handling unreliable networks
- Demonstrated ability to independently scope and lead backend projects
- Strong technical communication skills
- Experience building telemetry or IoT data pipelines for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or remote sensor fleets
- Familiarity with message queues/streaming platforms
- Experience with time-series databases (TimescaleDB, InfluxDB) or geospatial extensions (PostGIS)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Exposure to maritime, defense, or other real-time mission-critical systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and time-series/geospatial data modeling
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