Rune Technologies

Rune Technologies

Backend Software Engineer - Sensors and Integrations

Seattle, WA · Contract

No sponsorshipDetected 10 days ago
PythonGoCode ReviewData EngineeringCybersecurityLogisticsInventory ManagementRoboticsSensors

About the role

  • You'll join us in our mission to bring 21st-century software to the sustainment domain: modernizing inventory management, transportation optimization, and operational planning with state-of-the-art user experiences.
  • You'll work closely with a team of experienced engineers, product leaders, and operational experts who care deeply about delivering real-world impact.
  • As our Backend Software Engineer for Sensors and Integrations, you will be the first engineer dedicated to this workstream within TyrOS.

Responsibilities

  • Build and own production-grade backend systems that ingest data directly from physical sensors, devices, and hardware platforms.
  • Develop integrations for a range of sensor and hardware systems, working with clean APIs where available and finding reliable ways to extract data where interfaces are incomplete, poorly documented, or nonexistent.
  • Design services and data pipelines that normalize, process, and make sensor data available within TyrOS.
  • Build and improve tracking and sensor-fusion capabilities that correlate detections from multiple sources into a single tracked entity.
  • Collaborate with platform engineers, product teams, and operational stakeholders to translate sensor and tracking requirements into dependable software.
  • Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews, contributing to a culture of engineering rigor, ownership, and mission focus.
  • You will also help develop tracking and sensor-fusion capabilities that correlate detections from multiple sources into a coherent view of a single entity or object.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in software engineering, with demonstrated experience building and operating production software systems.
  • Proficiency in Python or Go.
  • Strong backend software engineering foundation, including experience designing services, APIs, data pipelines, and production systems.
  • Ability to work effectively with messy, incomplete, or poorly documented hardware interfaces and data formats.
  • Genuine software development experience-this role requires someone who writes and ships production code, not someone whose experience is primarily interpreting signals, configuring systems, or analyzing their output.
  • Comfort operating as an early or first hire in a new function with limited existing structure, internal expertise, or established processes.
  • Experience with sensor fusion, multi-sensor correlation, object tracking, or related algorithms.
  • Experience at a company operating at the intersection of hardware and software, such as autonomous systems, drones, radar, aerospace, satellites, robotics, or defense technology.
  • Familiarity with defense or government sensor, signal, or tracking data.
  • Experience working with radar systems, embedded data pipelines, telemetry, or other real-time hardware-generated data.
  • Hands-on experience integrating software with physical hardware, sensors, or device-generated data streams.
  • Experience personally building systems that ingest data directly from hardware-not only consuming data that has already been processed or exposed through a third-party service.
  • Strong sense of ownership and a bias for action.
  • Experience building software for classified, disconnected, degraded, or operationally constrained environments.

Skills

  • The U.S. military and its allies face a real logistics modernization problem.

Compensation

  • Highly competitive equity grants are also included in the majority of full time offers and are considered part of Rune's total compensation package.

Benefits

  • Rune offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees to include a full suite of insurance options at no cost for employees and low-cost to spouses and dependents.
  • Highly competitive equity grants are also included in the majority of full time offers and are considered part of Rune's total compensation package.
  • Benefits include:
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Basic life insurance and disability 100% covered for all employees by Rune
  • option to purchase additional life insurance available
  • 'Take the time off that you need, when you need it' paid time off, not accrual based
  • Generous company holiday calendar including a holiday shutdown in December
  • Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service, medical events, and parental leave
  • Full 401(k) retirement plan for all full-time eligible employees
  • Company-funded commuter benefits
  • Free access to on-site gym at office

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Active security clearance at the Secret level or above

This listing is sourced directly from Rune Technologies's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.