# Senior Ground Software Engineer at Astro Mechanica

- Company: Astro Mechanica
- What the company does: We're reinventing aircraft from the engine forward. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.
- Company website: https://astromecha.co/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $175K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-28
- Apply by: 2026-12-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Astro-Mechanica/b66d95fa-f4e7-4a17-8da3-59fb977ddebf?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
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## About the role

Architect and build the end-to-end ground data pipeline, from telemetry ingestion off the radio link through real-time processing, storage, backend APIs and business logic, to front-end visualization in Mission Control Drive low latency across the entire system, not just one stage, targeting roughly one second from aircraft to operator display Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or a Science discipline and 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Experience building real-time data or telemetry ingestion and processing systems
- Experience implementing a cloud stack that ingests data, stores it in a database, and processes it to serve an application (web, mobile, or otherwise)
- Hands-on experience with time series databases and a strong understanding of the trade-offs between database technologies and data ingestion approaches
- Experience designing low-latency, high-reliability systems, including fault tolerance for network and service failures
- Proficiency in the languages, frameworks, and API design used to expose data from a database to applications

Tags: Software

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