# Software Engineer — Fleet at Specter

- Company: Specter
- What the company does: Search 55M companies, 550M people and every funding or M&A event in real time—surface hidden startups, size markets and act first. Backed by Entrepreneur First.
- Company website: https://tryspecter.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/specter/0c92d7fa-34eb-48a8-92db-8ff213acdd6f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/specter-software-engineer-fleet/

## About the role

We are looking for a Software Engineer to lead the architecture and operation of our fleet management, deployment, and recovery systems. Every device we field operates over a long-range wireless link and must remain fully resilient without physical intervention—making fleet reliability a core distributed systems problem.

## What they're looking for

- Proven experience writing production code in systems languages (Rust, C/C++, Go, or Python) with a deep focus on fleet reliability, performance, and hardware-level failure modes
- Hands-on background architecting software for physical devices (embedded, IoT, edge)
- Demonstrated success designing unified fleet control planes and data models to reconcile target versus actual device state across high-scale distributed deployments
- Strong distributed systems instincts: building for partial failures, managing state convergence over lossy networks, and developing self-healing fault-escalation logic for zero site visits
- Track record of shipping over-the-air (OTA) update pipelines, staged rollouts, and automatic rollbacks with post-deploy edge verification over constrained wireless links
- Solid networking fundamentals (DNS, firewalls, VPNs, subnets, secure remote access) and experience operating across the full stack from embedded C/Rust to TypeScript control dashboards

Tags: Engineering