Senior Software Engineer

Tagup is a Series A defense technology company, founded at MIT, that is delivering logistics decision advantage with next-generation AI. Our product Manifest— is the operating system for the physical world. We’re a team of engineers and data scientists driven by our mission to use reinforcement learning and probabilistic modeling to optimize military logistics and critical infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Optimize complex NL queries and time-series data storage to ensure sub-second latency for our AI models; Design and implement high-performance REST APIs and microservices that power the Manifest platform; Build robust ETL pipelines that ingest high-frequency sensor data from diverse industrial assets; Implement sophisticated monitoring, alarming, and automated CI/CD pipelines to ensure 99.99% availability; Architect the core platform that ingests, processes, and acts on billions of data points from the physical world

Requirements

You treat architecture as an evolving being that morphs as customers scale and storage/compute/security needs change; You understand "Scale" vs. "Complexity": You know that scale isn't just about TPS; it's about handling complex data relationships; You want to mentor: You are ready to take the "Tech Lead" mantle, mentoring junior engineers and setting the standard for code quality and design patterns; Python (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Pandas); PostgreSQL; Redis; AWS (EC2, RDS, EKS); Kubernetes; Terraform; AI: pyro, torch, MCP, Langchain using Claude; Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; Unable to sponsor visas at this time