CareerPlan

Staff Software Engineer, Stateful Systems

Washington, DC (DC-01)Full-time$220k2026-10-07 → 2026-11-10

Core

Rebuilding the core data layer (time-series engine and distributed storage) for Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system for autonomous military systems.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Builds

High-availability, horizontally scalable time-series and storage systems for real-time sensor data ingestion and command/control.

Domain

Defense technology, Autonomous systems, Distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed systems fundamentals, Systems programming (Python, Go, C++, Rust), Storage engines/databases, Production infrastructure, Consistency models, Replication protocols, Failure modes analysis

Preferred skills

Time-series internals (LSM/B-tree), KV stores (FoundationDB, RocksDB), Resource-constrained environments, Intermittently-connected systems