Senior Software Engineer - Backend/Distributed Systems

Role overview

Senior Software Engineer - Backend / Distributed Systems to build and evolve Earth’s supervisory control and orchestration platform. The role focuses on safe, predictable operation across distributed environments as the company scales to multiple facilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the supervisory software orchestration layer for vessel and facility operations.
• Lead the design and evolution of supervisory software architecture across cloud and edge, including data storage and communication protocols between components.
• Own system behavior for scheduling, state coordination, configuration management, auditability, and traceability.
• Define and maintain APIs and contracts between supervisory software and vessel execution layers.
• Build telemetry ingestion, contextualization, and long-term storage pipelines.
• Ensure systems are observable, debuggable, and resilient to partial failures.
• Support facility rollouts with reliable configuration, deployment, and startup behavior.
• Contribute to DevOps practices supporting cloud and edge deployments.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in distributed systems, industrial automation, robotics, or supervisory control.
• Strong backend development skills in Python.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts and system-level thinking.
• Experience designing APIs and service boundaries.
• Experience with event-driven/message-based systems (e.g., MQTT, AMQP, Kafka).
• Experience building observable systems (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Comfort with hybrid edge/cloud architectures (e.g., AWS, GCP).
• Experience with modern DevOps tooling (e.g., CI/CD, containerization, cloud-native deployments).
• Experience supporting production systems tied to physical operations.
• Strong collaboration and communication across disciplines; ability to manage competing priorities.

Preferred

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or related field (or equivalent experience).