Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airspace Link, Inc. is a Detroit-founded, remote-first technology startup building digital infrastructure for drones and autonomous aviation through its FAA-approved AirHub Portal cloud platform. The Sr. Backend Software Engineer will design, build, and guide scalable cloud platform infrastructure, make significant architectural decisions, develop critical components in Go or TypeScript, and partner with engineers and leadership on reliability, security, and technical strategy.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the final technical authority for significant architectural decisions, including service boundaries, data models, API contracts, messaging patterns, and infrastructure choices
- Maintain a system-wide view of how our applications, services, data stores, messaging, and cloud infrastructure interact, including dependencies and failure modes
- Define and enforce architectural standards and patterns across engineering teams; review designs, RFCs, and significant code changes and require rework when necessary
- Lead the architecture review process for cross-team and high-impact technical changes and maintain architecture documentation, system diagrams, and ADRs
- Own the technical roadmap and major platform decisions for Kubernetes, Azure, infrastructure-as-code, and platform tooling
- Personally design, prototype, and implement critical or high-risk components using Go, TypeScript, Terraform, or related technologies when hands-on involvement is required
- Partner directly with engineers on complex technical problems and mentor engineers to strengthen architectural thinking and engineering practices
- Establish and promote standards for reliability, observability, security, scalability, and operational resilience across the platform
- Evaluate technical debt and architectural risk against business and delivery priorities, with the authority to recommend delaying or stopping work when risk is unacceptable
- Partner with the CTO, Platform and Security engineers to ensure the platform evolves with a strong balance of technical quality, security, and business needs
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing production SaaS platforms, distributed systems, or cloud-native applications
- Experience in a senior technical role such as Platform Architect, Systems Architect, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or equivalent
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, and system-wide technical dependencies
- Strong production experience with Go and/or TypeScript and the ability to write production-quality code
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Azure, including cloud infrastructure and networking
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform, and modern CI/CD practices
- Experience with event-driven systems and messaging technologies such as NATS, as well as PostgreSQL and Redis
- Demonstrated ability to establish architectural standards, lead technical design reviews, and make high-impact system-level decisions
- Strong understanding of reliability, observability, security, scalability, and operational resilience in production systems
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence technical decisions across teams, and balance technical excellence with delivery needs
- Experience with NATS, Kafka, or comparable distributed messaging technologies
- Experience with Azure networking, IAM, and security architecture
- Experience with Docker and containerized application architectures
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Better Stack, or similar
- Experience with ADRs, RFC processes, system diagrams, and technical governance
- Experience in aviation, UAS, or adjacent industries
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement
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