Senior Backend Platform Engineer, Distributed Systems

Help redefine how the DoD makes multi-billion-dollar force-design decisions. In this role, you'll fuse physics-driven simulation, interactive computing, and verified AI code-generation to create next-generation wargaming platforms. If building ultra-low-latency APIs, taming high-volume geospatial data, and leading with clean, production-ready Python gets you fired up, let’s talk.

What you’ll do

• Own the service layer —design, build, and scale FastAPI micro-services and lightning-fast ZeroMQ messaging pipelines running in Kubernetes and bare-metal clusters.
• Wrangle data at speed & scale —shape and query multi-TB Postgres / PostGIS datasets, orchestrate Redis for sub-millisecond state, and keep everything rock-solid under bursty load.
• Glue the stack together —expose crisp, well-versioned REST & WebSocket endpoints for the frontend crew and simulation kernel.
• Ship continuously —automate CI / CD, observability, and security hardening to DoD standards; push to prod with confidence.
• Lead by doing —drive code reviews, mentor teammates, and set the standard for test coverage and documentation.

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