Staff/Senior Software Engineer - Hydris

About the role

Project Q is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of their Hydris orchestration products. You will design and build systems that integrate heterogeneous real-world sensors and mission systems into a coherent tactical IoT backbone. This role focuses on distributed systems, protocol architecture, and API design for environments that are bandwidth-constrained and intermittently connected.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core engine systems using Go.
• Evolve schemas and API designs for sensor and mission system integration.
• Architect peer-to-peer mesh and federation layers for disconnected environments.
• Solve complex coordination problems including conflict resolution and entity state consistency.
• Set technical standards for testing, protocol versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Review code with a focus on long-term maintainability and operational correctness.

Required skills

• Golang
• Distributed systems
• API design
• Protobuf
• TypeScript
• Rust

Nice to have

• Geospatial systems
• Sensor fusion
• Track management
• CoT/TAK
• ASTERIX
• SAPIENT
• MIL-STD-2525
• Mesh architectures

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping distributed systems in production
• Experience maintaining APIs that other people depend on
• Eligibility to work in Germany

Benefits

• Annual learning and development budget
• Bike leasing
• Urban Sports Club membership
• 30 days of paid time off

About the Company

Project Q GmbH is a Germany-based DefenseTech company that networks market-available sensors, effectors, and situational awareness systems into a tactical IoT backbone. They build platform-agnostic systems that integrate into existing defense and maritime infrastructures to provide fast data fusion and AI-enhanced analytics.