Sr Backend / Distributed Systems Engineer

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McLean, VA

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Employment Type:

Full-Time

Job Description

This senior role owns the core agent-based architecture of the CLEARSITE™ Distributed RF Intelligence System. The engineer will design and scale decision and execution agents, event bus infrastructure, and service contracts coordinating real-time detection, decoding, and policy-driven execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement Decision and Execution Agents
• Design and enforce DetectionEvent schemas and module adapter contracts
• Own event bus infrastructure with priority enforcement and latency guarantees
• Integrate policy artifacts, planning advisors, and LLM-based advisory systems
• Establish resilient service communication and error-handling patterns
• Collaborate with RF and systems engineers on hardware-aware orchestration
• Drive performance, scalability, and reliability across the service ecosystem

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience with message buses (NATS, pub/sub)
• Expertise in low-latency API and schema-driven development
• Experience with MySQL and ClickHouse
• Deep understanding of concurrency and real-time systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in telecom, defense, or spectrum systems
• Experience integrating AI/LLM systems into deterministic workflows
• Familiarity with Dockerized microservices and secure APIs

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