Senior Software Engineer, Platform Integration

About the role

About Fabric

Fabric is Forterras distributed systems platform for registering discovering and replicating mission-critical data across dynamic mesh network topologies. Fabric enables interoperability between autonomous vehicles operators services and partner systems across unreliable bandwidth-constrained networks.

Fabric is foundational infrastructure used by multiple internal teams and external integrators. It connects autonomy systems command-and-control applications operator interfaces vehicles and partner technologies into a common operational ecosystem.

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to focus on Fabric integrations and developer-facing APIs. You will help make Fabric easier to adopt across Forterras products and by external partners building the interfaces adapters SDKs tools and documentation that connect Fabric to real-world systems.

This role is ideal for a generalist engineer who enjoys working across system boundaries. You will partner directly with teams building autonomy command and control networking web applications and vehicle software to understand their needs and deliver reliable integrations. You should be comfortable moving between API design backend services data modeling distributed systems testing deployment and technical documentation.

This is a hands-on role with significant ownership and cross-team influence. You will help shape how developers and integrators interact with Fabric while contributing to the evolution of the platform itself.

What youll do

• Design and build APIs SDKs adapters and integration tools that enable applications and partner systems to use Fabric.

• Define clear interfaces for registering discovering querying subscribing to and replicating mission-critical data.

• Build integrations between Fabric and systems such as autonomy services command-and-control applications operator interfaces vehicle platforms web applications and external partner software.
• Develop and maintain APIs using technologies such as gRPC REST Protocol Buffers or comparable interface technologies.
• Establish patterns for schema evolution versioning compatibility serialization authentication authorization and error handling.
• Translate real-world integration requirements into practical technical designs and production-ready implementations.
• Work directly with internal teams and external integrators to troubleshoot issues close capability gaps and improve the developer experience.
• Build testable observable and maintainable services that operate across distributed and intermittently connected environments.
• Create integration examples reference implementations automated test harnesses and developer documentation.
• Improve tooling and workflows for local development simulation integration testing deployment and field support.
• Collaborate with platform autonomy networking TerraLink ATAK web and product teams to establish consistent integration patterns.
• Contribute to Fabrics technical roadmap architecture and long-term platform strategy.
• Participate in design reviews and communicate technical decisions clearly to both engineering and integration audiences.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of professional software engineering experience building production software.
• Strong experience designing and implementing APIs integrations backend services or developer platforms.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as C Rust Go Python Java Kotlin or TypeScript.
• Experience with API and interface technologies such as gRPC REST GraphQL Protocol Buffers or similar.
• Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals including service communication replication consistency failure handling concurrency and recovery.
• Experience working with data models serialization formats schema evolution and backward compatibility.
• Strong testing fundamentals including unit integration contract and end-to-end testing.
• Experience developing and debugging software in Linux-based environments.
• Ability to work directly with partner teams or customers to understand requirements and deliver practical solutions.
• Proven ability to take technical projects from concept through production.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex systems clearly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building SDKs plugins adapters middleware or developer-facing platforms.
• Experience integrating with robotics autonomy command-and-control defense automotive or other edge systems.
• Familiarity with publish/subscribe or message-oriented middleware such as DDS ZeroMQ MQTT NATS Kafka or custom transports.
• Networking experience including UDP TCP unicast multicast routing or operation over constrained and unreliable links.
• Experience building software that operates across disconnected intermittently connected or bandwidth constrained environments.
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization models for distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud and edge deployment technologies containers CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with observability tools for logging metrics tracing and distributed-system diagnostics.
• Familiarity with CMake Conan Bazel Cargo or comparable build and package-management systems.
• Experience working with geospatial telemetry sensor or mission data.
• Experience supporting external developers or integrators through technical documentation examples and hands-on troubleshooting.
• Active security clearance or ability to obtain one.

US Salary Range
$145000 - $165000 (Arlington VA)

$155000 - $175000 (Palo Alto CA)

The salary range for this role is an estimate and is based on a wide variety of compensation factors. The salary offered to candidates will vary based on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) relevant work experience education specialized training critical expertise training and more. Equity in Forterra is included in most of our full-time high-demand roles and is therefore considered part of Forterras overall compensation addition to base salary and equity Forterra offers competitive benefits for full-time employees including:

• Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options including an HSA-eligible plan with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
• Basic Life/AD&D short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December.
• Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
• A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption.
• A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
• Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan including traditional Roth 401(k) and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.

Your recruiter will be able to share more information about our salary and benefits offering during the hiring process.

CLEARANCE ELIGIBILITY - This position may require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. For more information about U.S. Security Clearances:click here.

Forterra is an equal-opportunity employer providing and promoting equal employment opportunity in all personnel are unique talented individuals who are united through a shared passion to deliver autonomous systems that enable national resilience and a robust supply chain.

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