# Software Engineer - Member of Technical Staff (Platform) at Mithril Technologies

- Company: Mithril Technologies
- What the company does: Mithril builds electrostatically actuated antennas that give space-based radar the adaptability of a phased array at a fraction of the cost of either a phased array or a traditional deployable reflector — monitoring, scanning, and opening access to the... Backed by Techstars.
- Company website: https://mithril.space
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Palo Alto / San Francisco Bay Area
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-04-22
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mithril/jobs/5117511007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mithril-technologies-software-engineer-member-of-technical-staff-platform/

## About the role

You will work across Mithril's three core engineering areas — Consumption (the developer-facing product, billing, and API surface), Platform (the orchestration and marketplace engine), and Supply (integrations with cloud providers and capacity management). You will own meaningful slices of each, shipping features end-to-end against a product that handles real revenue and business-critical customer workloads.

## What they're looking for

- Strong Python backend skills — you've built and maintained production APIs at real scale, not just prototypes
- Proven experience with distributed systems, comfortable with messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka) and RPC methods (gRPC, protobuf, tRPC)
- Fluency with relational databases: schema design, query optimization, and migrations in production environments
- Ability to own a feature end-to-end — from design doc through backend API, database migration, feature flag rollout, and monitoring
- Strong debugging instincts: calm and systematic when triaging production incidents, with a bias toward durable fixes
- Comfortable in small teams where ownership is high and process is lightweight

Tags: Engineering