Senior Software Engineer, Back End

Overview Sedaro is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to architect our workflow orchestration system. Proliferating satellite constellations require optimization studies involving unprecedented scale and complexity. You will build the execution engine that enables aerospace teams to run massive simulation campaigns-exploring vast design spaces with the flexibility to handle evolving mission requirements.

Team: Platform Services, reporting to the team lead

Location: In person in Arlington, VA

U.S. Citizen or permanent resident status required

Who We Are Our cloud-native simulation platform enables digital mission engineering through distributed, scalable, faster than real-time analyses across hundreds of interacting systems. Our system is built on Rust, Python, Kubernetes, Django, and Postgres to drive performance across clouds. Join us as an early employee and transform how teams collaboratively engineer next-generation Aerospace & Defense systems.

Who You Are

You love solving distributed systems problems-workload orchestration, data throughput, performance optimization

You thrill in building power tools that multiply what engineers can accomplish

Youre comfortable with ambiguity and prefer rapid iteration over lengthy planning

You're excited to work at the intersection of software and physical systems alongside aerospace, embedded, and platform engineers

What You'll Do

Architect Lean solutions with impactful incremental deliverables

Optimize multi-cloud systems for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency

Design and implement system observability with actionable alerting and measurable SLOs

Drive operational excellence through infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability practices

Lead root cause analysis and blameless post-mortem discussions

Foster a culture of learning, empowerment, and achievement

Benefits

Equity

Unlimited PTO

401(k) with 4% match

100% premium payment for Medical Insurance

Parental Leave

Flexible work schedule with core hours

Company provided lunches 3 days a week

Industry-leading career development opportunities

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience

6+ years of professional experience in software engineering

Experience with containerization, container orchestration, and event streams

Experience with relational and key-value databases

Experience designing and implementing APIs

Experience driving performance through observability and/or root cause analysis

Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language