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Senior Software Engineer, Systems Programming

Sedaro
Arlington, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/17/2026 CLOSED ON 7/16/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer, Systems Programming position at Sedaro?

Overview 

Sedaro is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to strengthen the performance and reliability of our distributed
multi-physics simulation platform. In this role, you will contribute to the development of our simulation runtimes and leverage the cloud for cutting-edge performance and scale.
 

  • Team: Simulator, reporting to the Team Lead 
  • Location: In person in Arlington, VA or Boston, MA 
  • U.S. Citizen or permanent resident status required 


Who We Are 

Our simulation platform enables digital mission engineering through distributed, scalable, faster than real-time analyses across hundreds of interacting systems. We achieve this by ingesting simulation functions, models, and data, and generating high-performance code and architectures specialized for the given scenario. We maintain runtimes for both massively parallel execution in the cloud as well as execution in resource-constrained environments such as autonomous edge devices. Our technology is built with Rust, Kubernetes, gRPC, and Python. Join us as an early employee and transform how teams collaboratively engineer the next generation of Aerospace & Defense systems. 


Who You Are 

  • You are energized by novel challenges and unsolved problems 
  • You are meticulous in your designs to ensure reliability and extensibility 
  • You are motivated to deliver optimized, high-performance systems 
  • You explore existing solutions to problems to choose the right tool for the job 
  • You enjoy a fast-moving work environment and drive progress on decisions and projects 


What You’ll Do 

  • Enable increasingly massive distributed simulations
  • Lead development of features for both our cloud and edge simulation runtimes 
  • Optimize and track performance metrics of our simulations 
  • Maximize parallelism and caching in our build systems and services 
  • Develop QA frameworks and maintain high reliability standards 
  • Provide feedback and guidance on code reviews and design reviews 
  • Sustain our internal and external documentation 
  • Lead team-wide discussions and research as we continue to innovate on the semantics and implementation of our simulation technology 


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 Rust or comparable compiled languages 
  • Experience profiling and optimizing application performance 
  • Comfort with containerization and cloud technologies 
  • Excellent technical writing skills 


Additional desirable experience: 

  • Simulation software, scientific computing 
  • HPC, embedded software, game engines, compilers 
  • Distributed systems, backend development 
  • Unique non-software technology perspectives are welcome 

Salary : $150,000

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