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Seasats lists this Senior Backend Software Engineer opportunity in northern, Kentucky. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Senior Backend Software Engineer
Location: San Diego, CA (in-office)
Salary Range: $165,000 - $220,000 / yr + stock options, 401k matching, and other benefits
Role Overview:
Seasats' vehicles operate for months at a time, often thousands of miles from land, and every one of them is streaming telemetry, health data, and mission state back to shore. The backend systems that ingest, store, and serve that data are the backbone of how we operate our fleet, support our customers, and keep our vehicles safe.
We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help design and scale our systems to include real-time telemetry ingestion pipelines, APIs and services that power our fleet management platform and customer integrations. You'll help shape how Seasats' backend infrastructure evolves as our fleet, and the data it generates, grows.
Role Details:
Design, build, and own backend services that ingest, process, and store real-time and historical vehicle telemetry at fleet scale
Architect APIs that expose vehicle and mission data to internal tools, customer dashboards, and integrations, with an eye toward reliability and low latency
Design data models and storage strategies for high-volume, time-series, and geospatial data
Build systems that are resilient to the realities of maritime operations: intermittent connectivity, delayed or out-of-order data, and edge cases at sea
Improve the scalability, observability, and reliability of existing backend services as fleet size and data volume grow
Collaborate with the vehicle software and UI teams to integrate new data sources and capabilities
Help inform technical direction and best practices for backend architecture, and mentor other engineers
About You:
8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and scaling production systems
Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar backend language
Strong experience in security principles and implementation
Deep experience designing REST and/or streaming (WebSocket, MQTT) APIs
Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and time-series/geospatial data modeling
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
Bonus points if you have:
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
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
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.
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