Senior Backend Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
HavocAI
$175,000–$200,000
Jul 7, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role focused on designing and building distributed, highly concurrent backend services in Go for autonomous systems that operate across sea, air, and land. Day-to-day work spans service architecture, API design, performance tuning, and cross-team integration from edge devices to cloud infrastructure. Best suited to engineers with deep distributed-systems experience who are comfortable setting technical direction in a small, fast-moving environment.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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The JD requires U.S. citizenship and the 'ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance' — this is a hard gate on clearance eligibility. The specific level is not named; Secret is the most common baseline for defense/autonomy work at this stage. An active or prior clearance is listed under Preferred Skills as a bonus.
Consensus and coordination primitives (etcd, Raft, leader election) are listed in the required qualifications block as a single capability; etcd is used as the primary name with Raft and ZooKeeper as common interchangeable alternatives in this context.
API design and system architecture are listed as required but name no specific technology or tool, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
AWS (or cloud-based infrastructure) appears only under Preferred Skills, so it is marked preferred.
IoT/robotics/autonomous systems experience and networking fundamentals both appear under Preferred Skills.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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