Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

About Overland AI 

Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Overland AI is transforming land operations for modern defense. The company leverages over a decade of advanced research in robotics and machine learning, as well as a field-test forward ethos, to deliver combined capabilities for unit commanders. Our OverDrive autonomy stack enables ground vehicles to navigate and operate off-road in any terrain without GPS or direct operator control. Our intuitive OverWatch C2 interface provides commanders with precise coordination capabilities essential for mission success.  

Overland AI has secured funding from prominent defense tech investors including 8VC and Point 72, and built trusted partnerships with DARPA, the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, and Special Operations Command. Backed by eight-figure contracts across the Department of Defense, we are strengthening national security by iterating closely with end users engaged in tactical operations.   

Role Summary

Overland AI is building off-road autonomy, and our software infrastructure is the backbone that enables our teams to move fast, experiment safely, and ship mission-critical systems. As an infrastructure software engineer, you'll design, build, the internal platforms, libraries, and tooling that enable our engineering organization to move faster and operate more reliably.

We are looking for a senior backend or full-stack software engineer to join our infrastructure team in a role that sits at the intersection of software engineering, developer experience, and platform tooling. You are an expert in identifying areas of improvement and will contribute to and build shared libraries, service frameworks, and internal tools used across our AI, robotics, and backend systems. Successful candidates will have a track record of evangelizing and implementing industry best practices in microservice or hardware environments and have consistently delivered results on cross-team initiatives.

You will help bring rigor to observability, security, CI/CD, and service deployment while contributing to CI/CD, DevOps, infrastructure as code, compliance, and infrastructure initiatives across the organization. We are responsible for physical infrastructure and cloud platforms to DevSecOps, SRE, field deployments, and software engineering. Successful candidates are able to work across traditional role boundaries.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop shared libraries, SDKs, and frameworks used across engineering teams for logging, telemetry, database access, authentication, and service communication.
• Build internal tooling, utilities, and automation that improve developer productivity, software quality, and operational excellence.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, and engineering workflows in partnership with software and infrastructure teams.
• Partner with software, infrastructure, and robotics teams to establish common patterns and best practices for building, deploying, and operating services.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of cloud-native systems and platform capabilities across AWS, Kubernetes, and on-prem environments.
• Mentor engineers and help drive technical direction for shared software platforms, developer tooling, and engineering standards across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Backend Engineering, Developer Experience, DevOps, or related disciplines.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, C++, or similar programming languages, with experience building production software, reusable libraries, and internal tooling.
• Ability to obtain and maintain and U.S. government security clearance

Desired Qualifications & Experience

• Strong understanding of backend systems, including databases, distributed systems, observability, and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience implementing logging, metrics, and tracing solutions using technologies such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud and infrastructure technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as Code, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience in compliance programs such as PCI-DSS, ISO27001, or NIST frameworks is highly valued.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence engineering practices across multiple teams and comfortably operate as a technical generalist.

Location 

This position is based in Seattle, WA.

Compensation & Benefits 

Pay range:

Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer: $200,000 - $240,000 annually

Actual base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

Benefits include:  

• Equity compensation  
• Medical, dental and vision coverage 
• Flexible paid time off 
• 401(k) with company matching contributions 
• Parental leave
• Monthly wellness stipend
• One-time workplace & productivity reimbursement

Overland AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, genetic information, protected veteran or military status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

This position may involve access to export-controlled technology. Employment is contingent on the ability to comply with U.S. export control laws.

Overland AI provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans during the application process. Please contact [email protected] to request an accommodation.