Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
BRINC - Seattle, WA
posted 1 day ago
About the position
At BRINC, we are redefining public safety with an innovative ecosystem of life-saving tools. Our journey started with the development of drones and ruggedized throw phones, designed to access unsafe areas and establish communication to de-escalate situations. Today, we've expanded into creating and deploying 911 response networks, where drones are dispatched to 911 calls to provide real-time visual data, enhancing safety and enabling de-escalation-focused responses. Our cutting-edge solutions are utilized by over 500 public safety agencies across America. At BRINC, we are committed to recruiting the world's best talent to join us in our mission to support first responders in saving lives. In addition to launching more advanced drones, we're also expanding our software ecosystem into realtime monitoring and fleet management, and we recently shipped the first version of our first web app: LiveOps. This app gives drone operators and first response teams access to real-time live-streaming drone data such as visual and thermal video feeds, 3D map data via point clouds, and a myriad of drone telemetry - it's essentially a web-based drone fleet management software. But our vision isn't just fleet management; LiveOps represents a critical part of BRINC's transition from a company that just sells drones to a company that sells entire drone programs: we want to build out the entire drone ecosystem (both hardware and software) for our customers. It's an ambitious goal, but it's one that we feel confident about - we've got a lot of interest from customers in what we've built so far, and we are seeking a backend/platform engineer to join our engineering team and contribute to the development of the real-time platform and infrastructure that powers our web app.
Responsibilities
- Own the scalable backend platform that supports our worldwide real-time services
- Ensure our platform is secure, reliable, and performant
- Build our platform infrastructure and tooling
- Rapidly prototype new project ideas for customers and internal stakeholders
- Work with cross-functional hardware and autonomy teams to solve challenges like streaming and displaying live drone data for non-technical users in a variety of formats
Requirements
- A Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in computer science or a related field and 6+ years of experience shipping high-quality code and building robust infrastructure
- Experience building backend platforms, from the infrastructure up to the API layer (bonus if you've built real-time data platforms, scalable microservice architectures, and dealing with security & encryption requirements)
- Experience with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) and are comfortable switching between software engineering and Cloud DevOps
- Familiarity with serverless architecture, and understand the tradeoffs between performance and cost when running servers at scale
- Excellent attention to detail, especially around scalability, performance, and security
- Creative approach to problem-solving and exceptional analytical skills
- Thrive in a dynamic environment with changing needs and requirements
- Ability to work independently and in a small team, take initiative, and communicate effectively across the organization
- Ability to pass fingerprint-based background check.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for our employees and their families
- 401K plan
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Paid time off
- Flexible work environment
- Orca pass (for those in Puget Sound)
- Free parking (Seattle office)
- Free snacks, drinks and espresso (Seattle office)
