Senior Software Engineer, Data

About Us

Moonware is building the future of airside operations. We’re creating an integrated ecosystem of AI software and smart vehicles that connect ground crew, vehicles, and aircraft to efficiently service flights. With our advanced technologies, we are transforming aviation ground operations across the passenger, cargo, defense, and advanced air mobility sectors.

Moonware was founded on the belief that multimodal air transportation will become the prime mover of people and goods in the 21st century. To support this shift, airports and the hubs connecting these transport modes must transform to meet the demands of modern air travel. While aircraft technology continues to advance rapidly, the infrastructure and ground operations needed to enable these next-generation aerial ecosystems remain largely outdated. Moonware is closing this gap by creating the ecosystem for automated airfields to support the next era of travel.

Our flagship product, HALO, is the world’s first Ground Traffic Control platform powered by AI. The platform is designed to streamline aircraft turnaround management, seamlessly coordinating ramp crew and ground support equipment to service flights on time. It drives significant operational improvements for teams, resulting in faster turnarounds, reduced block times, fewer delays, increased flight throughput, and maximized asset utilization. The modernization HALO brings to ground operations is what we see as building the bridge to airfield autonomy.

We are a team of builders from top Silicon Valley tech companies, combining our expertise in aerospace and software to drive innovation in an industry often slow to evolve. As we push forward, the Moonware ecosystem will continue to expand, unlocking new possibilities and shaping the future of travel.

About the role

Moonware is seeking a hands-on, full-stack-minded Software Engineer to lead and own our data systems powering HALO. In this role, you’ll take end-to-end ownership of the entire development cycle: from ingesting and validating real-time data from devices and vendors to designing infrastructure, databases, and APIs that deliver trustworthy information at scale. This is not a backend-only role, it’s a deeply cross-functional position. You’ll work directly with ground crews, hardware vendors, and internal teams to architect, build, and maintain a reliable data platform that HALO and its users depend on every second.

Responsibilities

• Own all things data: ingestion pipelines, quality checks, real-time processing, storage, and delivery to downstream systems and apps

• Work across the stack: write infrastructure-as-code, deploy ingestion services, build internal tools, and expose well-designed APIs

• Collaborate with field users and vendors to understand edge cases, device quirks, and operational needs, then reflect those insights in technical design

• Build scalable systems that ensure reliability and performance under extreme load

• Ensure data integrity through automated testing, monitoring, and observability across the pipeline

• Drive engineering best practices across CI/CD, cloud architecture, and observability

• Continuously refine our data model to support growing use cases in mobility, autonomy, and coordination

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a software or data engineer, preferably in a real-time or operational environment

• Deep familiarity with building and operating data pipelines (e.g. Kafka, Airflow, Debezium, etc) and cloud-native infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GCP, Terraform)

• Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, schema design, and performance tuning

• Proficient in one or more backend languages (Go, Java, or similar), and able to write clean, maintainable code

• Experience exposing and consuming REST and/or gRPC APIs

• A product mindset: you enjoy talking to users and vendors to deeply understand problems before solving them

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

• Comfortable working in startup environments with high ownership and autonomy

This role might be for you if

• Aviation, autonomy, and mobility excite you

• You like to rapidly iterate, learn on the fly, and wear many “hats”

• You thrive in real-world, field-connected systems, not just clean data warehouse problems

• Love leading technical teams to develop solutions for customers

Nice to haves

• Experience with real-time, event-driven systems (MQTT, WebSockets, etc)

• Background in aviation, mobility, IoT, or logistics

• Previous experience at an early-stage startup

• Experience with sensor data, GPS, or fleet telemetry