About Swoop:
Swoop Technologies has a mission to organize and make accessible the world’s military and critical infrastructure. We are building a distributed operating system, SwoopOS, that decomposes the world’s equipment into a distributed robotic embodiment upon which a new generation of distributed systems, autonomous systems, and agentic AI can be built and deployed using our SDK, Valhalla, and operated via our browser, Surf. Imagine the world’s equipment - consisting of the electrical grid, communications architectures, manufacturing facilities, and militaries as a trapped supply of inputs possessing the potential to ensure Western military advantage, sovereign control of economically competitive manufacturing capacity, or the creation of a grid that fosters energy dominance. Swoop is liberating these trapped assets, allowing them to contribute to the world’s future as a series of building blocks to be combined at the speed of software, limited by only the hard constraints of physics and the soft constraints of safety. That is what Swoop is building. Not in the data center or cloud or edge on-premise computing node. In the physical world. This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Minneapolis/St. Paul OR Washington, DC who can work in-office 3+ days per week
Impact:
Swoop’s operating system challenges many paradigms defining a scalable API. Management, security, and interoperability each will be re-imagined in how Swoop’s OS exposes interfaces to inputs and outputs within the stack. You will have a role developing APIs that Swoop developers leverage to build user-facing applications running on the Swoop platform. These APIs will be further leveraged and exposed to 3rd parties to develop an ecosystem of novel applications running on the Swoop OS.
Responsibilities:
Develop and build new services and features, working closely internally with our firmware team to interface with the SwoopOS, our frontend team to support our web application, and our infrastructure team to deliver a stable product to market.
Design and build SDK’s for internal and external use, working with 3rd parties as they develop applications to run on our OS.
Work to standardize the manner in which we implement data structure handling. E.g - how we handle byte arrays across all parts of our code base.
Ensure our services have strong availability and service level agreements across our code base, especially as it pertains to the runtime of our Kubernetes cluster in production.
Tune data storage configurations to optimize for scale and near real-time availability in a streaming architecture.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
3+ yrs in backend software development writing scalable code and/or modern APIs structured from databases and distributed data sources
Proficient Python coding ability with good understanding of data structures and data models
Experience with Kubernetes in a production environment
Understanding of basic software security standards
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with one or more of the following: async Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Solr, Rust
Experience handling multimedia data structures
Swoop Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
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What We Do
Swoop is building a secure, distributed operating system, allowing our customers to securely harness their data and construct a programmable, autonomous edge.
The edge is where digital rubber meets the real-world road. Where data is produced, consumed, or networked to accomplish an objective. It is covered in assets -- chips, memory, networking interfaces -- that comprise a distributed computing platform.
The edge is strategically important and asset-rich. Swoop is helping unlock its potential, so that search and analysis no longer end simply with incremental insights or neatly organized search results, but with autonomous action directly at the edge.
Swoop's technology has been deployed in some of the world's most sophisticated environments. Our team is purposeful in directing our technology toward solving important problems. We are building for a future where advancements in critical infrastructure, smart grids, supply chains, and manufacturing are programmed into existing systems -- rapidly, adaptive, and economically feasible.
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