What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Distributed Systems position at Sedaro?
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 design and build the knowledge engine to unlock this scale.
- Team: Workflows, reporting to the Director of Engineering
- 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, and Kubernetes 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 see beauty in a well-oiled machine
- You take ownership of technical challenges and celebrate team wins
- You thrill in equipping your teammates with force-multiplying tools and practices
- You embrace experimentation and autonomy without compromising quality
- You’re energized by deep learning and sharing knowledge across disciplines
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 event-driven architectures
- Experience with relational and key-value databases
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, terraform
- Experience driving performance through observability
- Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language
- Experience leading incident response and root cause analysis
Salary : $150,000
