# Lead Software Engineer - Gov Platforms at WindBorne

- Company: WindBorne
- What the company does: WindBorne designs, builds, and operates a constellation of long-duration smart weather balloons targeting the most critical data in the atmosphere. Backed by Khosla and Pear VC.
- Company website: https://windbornesystems.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: RWC HQ
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-07
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/windborne-systems/c461fe44-524c-4f3b-b7dc-2ea3047d11e0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/windborne-lead-software-engineer-gov-platforms/

## About the role

In this role, you'll architect and implement government-specific versions of our software platforms, ensuring they meet security, compliance, and operational requirements unique to federal customers. This means adapting our data pipelines, APIs, and analysis tools to work within government infrastructure constraints while maintaining performance and reliability.

## What they're looking for

- At least five years of software engineering experience with demonstrated success owning high-priority software development efforts
- Ability to work across full stack, frontend (Ruby on Rails, Postgres, etc.) to backend (Python, Rust) and all the bits between
- Strong background in data engineering—building pipelines, processing large datasets, optimizing data storage, and retrieval
- Proven experience developing software that adheres to stringent security compliance standards, from the government, financial industry, healthcare, or similar
- Written and verbal communication acumen suitable for a customer-facing role, for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills across the stack

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