Senior Software Engineer, Platform at AirMap (Santa Monica, CA)

 AirMap is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team with 7+ years in software development and experience designing and shipping RESTful APIs and scalable cloud applications.  This hands-on position is an opportunity to individually contribute to all aspects of the software process: including architecture, specification reviews, automated testing, implementation, code reviews, debugging, and documentation.

What’s it like to work at AirMap?

AirMap is the world’s leading airspace services platform for unmanned aircraft.  Developed by experts in technology, aviation, and policy, AirMap’s family of APIs and SDKs are used by nearly 80% of the world’s drones to exchange dynamic information, creating a safe and efficient environment in low-altitude airspace.

Based in our Santa Monica office, you will work closely with a small, nimble, globally distributed cross-functional team of platform architects and software engineers passionate about the challenges of contextual airspace and delivering the future of unmanned flight.

AirMap has offices in Santa Monica and Berlin with employees across the globe. We value thoughtful discussion and knowledge-sharing among a diverse set of peers and colleagues and are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.

In this role you will:

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• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable APIs, services, and systems within the AirMap Platform.
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• Participate in all aspects of the product lifecycle, from ideation to design to specification to release.
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• Debug issues on all parts of the stack and improve our automated testing practices.
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• Communicate closely with small, nimble, globally distributed cross-functional teams.
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• Maintain a holistic view of our platform, identifying sensible, simple, and elegant solutions to complex problems.
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• Continually work to improve our engineering standards, processes, and tooling.
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• Own projects end-to-end as an individual contributor while collaborating with the wider team on key architectural decisions.
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You may work on projects like:

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• Creating an API that allows developers to sign up for AirMap’s platform and integrates with a reverse proxy to manage authentication keys, ACL grouping and rate limiting.
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• Refactoring a map tile service to function more efficiently under heavy load.
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• Building a real-time telemetry pipeline capable of streaming thousands of simultaneous drone flights over gRPC.
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• Designing a route-planning service that helps drones navigate intelligently while considering factors like 3D terrain, obstacles, and weather.
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AirMap provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, parental or pregnancy status, veteran status or genetics.

In addition to federal law requirements, AirMap complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which AirMap has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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