Senior Software Engineer

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. 

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com.

The Role
We're looking for a software engineer to build the backend systems that power our sensor infrastructure — the services that ingest, process, and serve data from radar, RF, and other sensing systems at scale. You'll design and operate cloud-native systems on Azure, working alongside systems, hardware, and software engineers in a small team with high autonomy.
This is an early-stage role with outsized impact. You'll define architecture decisions, ship production code, and see your work protecting people's lives.
What You'll Do
- Design and build scalable backend services in Python that process and serve sensor data on Azure
- Architect cloud infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and release processes
- Work directly with hardware and systems engineering teams to integrate software with physical sensor systems
- Define software architecture decisions as a foundational member of the team
- Mentor engineers as the team grows
- Travel periodically to other offices (LA, DC) and customer sites
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience designing and operating scalable backend systems in cloud environments (Azure strongly preferred)
- Track record of building and supporting production systems — you've been on-call, debugged outages, and shipped under pressure
- Proficiency with modern engineering practices: git, unit testing, CI/CD, code review
- Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or permanent resident) — required for access to controlled technology
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
Strongly Preferred
- Experience at a top-tier technology company building systems at scale
- Background building data-intensive pipelines, streaming architectures, or real-time systems
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud-native architecture on Azure
- Interest in defense, aerospace, or national security technology
Nice to Have
- Active Secret or Top Secret clearance
- TypeScript/React frontend experience
- 2D/3D data visualization (mapping, geospatial, point clouds)
- Software Defined Radio or RF/IQ data processing experience
- Sensor development background (radars, EO/IR, EW, sensor fusion)
- Additional languages: Rust, Node.js, Java, Bash
- COTS hardware integration experience

Why CHAOS?

• Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• Additional benefits: 401k (+ 50% company match up to 6% of pay), FSA, HSA, life insurance, and more
• Our Perks: Free daily lunch, ‘No meeting Fridays’, unlimited PTO, casual dress code
• Compensation Components: Competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance, and (coming soon!) annual bonuses
• Team Growth: 250 employees and counting across 5 global offices

The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation range and excludes additional earnings such as bonus, equity, and benefits. If your compensation requirements fall outside of the range, we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. 

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