Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Backend

Location: Oslo, Norway

Company

hirify.global develops intelligent autonomy and swarm software for unmanned aerial vehicles, serving government and industry in partnership with the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment.

What you will do

• Design and build cloud services for ingesting UAV flight telemetry, logs, and media from Ground Control Station instances.
• Select the cloud infrastructure and deployment model, considering vendor compatibility and future customer rollouts.
• Design API contracts between Ground Control Station clients, the cloud backend, and the dashboard frontend.
• Build authentication and secure transport for device-to-cloud communication, including non-human client identities.
• Develop the transition from post-flight uploads to real-time data streaming.
• Operate the platform in production and monitor its behaviour as it scales.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering experience, including at least 4 years building production backend services in public or private cloud environments.
• Experience designing and operating ingestion or device-to-cloud systems for clients operating in the field.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code practices, including reviewed, tested, and versioned infrastructure.
• Strong API design judgement and experience evolving production APIs.
• Architectural ownership of cloud services and deployment models.
• Extensive experience with at least one of Go, Python, Rust, or a similar backend language.

Nice to have

• Experience with IoT, telemetry, fleet monitoring, drones, robotics platforms, or hostile network environments.
• Backend experience with Rust.
• Experience with real-time streaming systems.
• Media streaming or video pipeline experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on UAV technology for defence and industry with direct real-world impact.
• Help shape core systems and practices in a company that is still being built.
• Work in a team that values clarity, integrity, collaboration, technical depth, and operational discipline.
• Benefits include competitive pay, potential equity, insurance, pension plans, and ongoing learning opportunities.
• All employees must undergo security clearance because of collaboration with the Norwegian Armed Forces; prior clearance is not required.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screening interview followed by a team meet-and-greet.
• Take-home programming assignment and a technical interview.
• Final interview with the CTO and Head of People, followed by a reference check and offer.