Staff Software Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a very senior, hands-on software engineer to own the software running in Pelagon’s operations centre, including data infrastructure, processing services, internal tools and customer-facing applications. You will architect the overall platform and build it with the team, from data ingestion and storage to machine-learning workloads, operational applications and deployment. You will be the technical interface between our embedded systems and AI teams, bringing their work together into a coherent, reliable system.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture of core services, APIs, internal tools and customer-facing applications.
• Build reliable ingestion, storage and retrieval for large volumes of sensor and operational data.
• Build the infrastructure to schedule, execute and monitor data-processing and ML jobs.
• Make the platform reproducibly deployable on Pelagon and customer infrastructure.
• Establish observability, performance testing, capacity planning, backup and recovery.
• Build security into architecture, implementation, deployment and maintenance.
• Define clear interfaces and data contracts with the embedded systems and AI teams.
• Set a high standard for code, testing, documentation and technical judgement.

Required skills

• Software architecture
• Data engineering
• DevOps
• Linux
• Networking
• Containers
• Infrastructure as code
• Cybersecurity
• Distributed processing

Nice to have

• Sensor data
• Time-series data
• Streaming data
• Geospatial data
• GPU infrastructure
• ML platform engineering

About the Company

Pelagon is a European defence technology company building Autonomous Maritime Interdiction systems. We bring together sensing, AI, software and maritime engineering to help protect critical infrastructure and maritime environments.