Backend Software Engineer - Sensors and Tracking at Rune Technologies
Seattle, WA
—
Jul 10, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a backend engineering role focused on building the sensor and hardware integration layer of a military logistics platform. The work centers on ingesting data from physical devices — such as fuel sensors, munitions counters, and pallet scanners — normalizing it into usable pipelines, and developing sensor-fusion capabilities that correlate multi-source detections into a single tracked entity. It suits an experienced engineer comfortable building production systems from scratch with limited existing structure.
Senior level · 4+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
We read this from the posting text with AI. Skim the description below before ruling yourself out.
How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 55,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 23,300–83,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title 'Backend Software Engineer' carries no seniority level word, so the title states no level; however, the 4+ years requirement, ground-floor ownership expectations, and depth of production-system scope support a Senior classification.
Python and Go are presented as interchangeable proficiency options ('Python or Go') — Python is listed first and used as the primary skill name with Go in alternatives.
Hardware/sensor integration is a hard gate: the JD explicitly requires hands-on experience integrating software with physical hardware and calls out that experience must be direct (not via third-party services), not merely signal interpretation or configuration.
An active Secret clearance (or above) appears only under Desired Qualifications, so it is not a hard gate — the clearance requirement is set to None accordingly.
Sensor fusion, object tracking, radar, telemetry, and embedded data pipelines all appear exclusively under 'Desired Qualifications' and are marked preferred.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
The caller has declared this role fully remote; no metro is inferred.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
Read the full posting
The employer publishes the full description on their own site — read it there ↗. Or sign in to read it here — it's free, and it also lets you track this application.