Job description
Principal Software Engineer (Production Systems)
$175,000 - $262,000 + Equity + Benefits + Relocation Assistance
Dallas, TX or San Jose, CA (Hybrid - 3 days a week onsite)
Are you a Senior Engineer with experience in production systems, looking to join an early-stage, well-funded company ($50M seed) that is revolutionizing defense manufacturing?
Incredible opportunity to gain early equity in a fast-growth company that is building cutting-edge technology in the defense space, with sights set on becoming a billion-dollar business.
This company is transforming America's defense manufacturing by integrating robotics and software into factory systems at scale. Backed by $50 million in funding and experiencing rapid growth, their mission is to restore America's industrial strength and build automated factories that produce for America's defense sector.
In this role, you'll design and build core backend systems for Factory OS, integrating real-time machine data and ensuring secure, scalable architecture. You'll stay hands-on with coding, guide technical direction, and mentor engineers.
This would be a fantastic opportunity for a Software Engineer who is passionate about production systems, is success driven, and wants to make a huge impact on American manufacturing and defense.
The Role:
- Architect Factory OS.
- Stay hands-on with code while upholding high standards for quality, testing, and CI/CD.
- Design for scale across factories with resilient infrastructure and GitOps-based Kubernetes environments.
- Evaluate and integrate third-party tools for machine connectivity, RFID, and MES functions
- Collaborate with and guide frontend teams to prototype operator UIs using HTMX, Wails, or React.
The Person:
- Led high-throughput, mission-critical distributed systems
- Skilled in operating and debugging production Kubernetes environments
- Proficient in Go or similar systems languages (Rust, C++, Java)
- Expert in event streaming (Kafka, Pulsar) and modeling complex real-world systems
- Familiar with FedRAMP, CMMC, or NIST 800-171 standards
- Ability to work in Dallas, TX - Hybrid 3 days a week onsite (Or based in San Jose, CA and can travel to Dallas 1 week per month with expenses covered)
