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Working with high profile customers across militaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, law enforcement and many others.\n\nWith an approximately $1bn market capitalisation and having raised approximately $250m in 2024 alone, DroneShield is undergoing hypergrowth stage, fuelled by rapidly increasing use of drones for nefarious applications, from battlefield, to terrorism, to contraband delivery and commercial espionage.\n\nAbout the role\nDroneShield is seeking a Software Engineer with relevant experience to join the team in Warrenton, Virginia.\nThe position will report to the Director of Engineering and be a key member of the software development team. This role requires good initiative and offers the opportunity to own your area of responsibility with a tangible impact on our customers. Candidates interested in collaborating with adjacent technical disciplines will excel in this position.\nResponsibilities, Duties and Expectations\nDesign, develop and deploy scripts and services to integrate highly technical sensors into web-based Command and Control (C2) platform\nTranslate complex business requirements into software solutions that offer high availability, reliability, and performance\nWork with partner and customer organizations to present, design and optimize distributed systems to meet their expectations\nCollaborate closely with multi-disciplinary engineers in the USA and Australia\nTake operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team\nMaintain and build upon existing test infrastructure\nQualifications, Experience and Skills\nBS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience\n3 to 6 years of software development experience in Go (Golang) or C++\nExperience with gRPC or protobuf format is required\nExperience with sensor integration and distributed ‘IoT like’ systems is required\nStrong networking and scripting experience is required\nExperience with Unix/Linux environments, developing large software systems, microservice infrastructure and/or security software development is ideal\nPrevious Defense industry experience is highly favorable\nExperience with C# or Java is a plus\nComfortable working with customers and partners to communicate solutions to complex problems\nPrevious ‘start-up’ or ‘scale-up’ experience is favorable\n\nNote for recruitment agencies: we do not accept floated candidates from external recruiters unless they were instructed to do so.","company":"Droneshield","rawCompany":"droneshield","city":"Warrenton","state":"VA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-12T20:49:54.831Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1251.00","title":"Computer Programmers","slug":"computer-programmers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Software Engineer","description":"Work with cutting edge technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. 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