Data / Software Engineer

About the role

The Data & Analytics team builds robust infrastructure, tools, and data pipelines to process massive streams of telemetry, sensor, and video data from autonomous systems. As a Data / Software Engineer, you will own end-to-end data pipelines and tooling to support autonomous defence systems. You will design and optimize scalable architectures to enable rapid decision-making and continuous deployment across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines for real-time ingestion and processing of telemetry, sensor, and video data.
• Develop robust automation frameworks and internal tooling to stream data workflows across cross-functional STARK programs.
• Architect cloud infrastructure and data storage solutions leveraging AWS, Azure, or GCP to ensure high availability and low latency.
• Collaborate with hardware, embedded, and software engineering teams to define data models, interface specs, and telemetry schemas.
• Optimize data processing pipelines for high throughput, memory efficiency, and sub-second execution in mission-critical environments.
• Implement comprehensive data quality, monitoring, and alerting systems to proactively detect anomalies and operational issues.
• Maintain rigorous software engineering standards, including unit testing, CI/CD practices, and clear technical documentation.

Required skills

• Python
• Rust
• Go
• Data pipelines
• Relational databases
• Non-relational databases
• Object storage
• Cloud platforms
• Telemetry
• Sensor data
• Video data processing
• Developer tooling
• CI/CD
• Distributed systems

Nice to have

• Machine learning
• Data science
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Defense domain
• Aerospace domain
• Robotics

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in similar relevant roles
• Proficiency in Python, Rust, or Go
• Experience building scalable data pipelines
• Experience with cloud-native architectures

About the Company

STARK is a defence technology company that designs, develops, and manufactures software-defined, mass-scalable, and cost-effective unmanned systems. The company focuses on providing operators with a decisive edge in contested environments and bolstering the technological capabilities of NATO Allies and their Partners.