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Rune Technologies builds mission-critical software for military logistics and sustainment. The flagship product, TyrOS, is an AI-enabled logistics command and control platform that provides commanders with a real-time operating picture of their sustainment operations, from inventory and distribution to medical and operational planning, even in degraded and contested environments.
As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer, you will take on diverse challenges spanning full-stack development, networking, systems integration, and user-focused problem solving. You'll work in small teams with minimal supervision, owning end-to-end execution of high-stakes projects for military customers. The role balances speed, scalability, and sound engineering judgment.
Key responsibilities include:
- Working side-by-side with end users and stakeholders to understand their toughest challenges and design software solutions that directly address those needs
- Taking full ownership of features from concept to deployment, including prototyping, integrating with existing systems, and ensuring performance in demanding real-world environments
- Collaborating across engineering, product, design, and operations teams to build scalable systems and drive complex projects to completion
- Continuously monitoring and improving system reliability and performance through instrumentation, metrics analysis, and iterative fixes
- Balancing short-term urgency with long-term maintainability through thoughtful trade-offs
- Traveling approximately 25% to deploy, field-test, and support software systems, gathering feedback directly from users in operational settings
Rune is not a traditional defense contractor but a small, fast-moving team combining deep operational experience with the DoD with software discipline from best-in-class product companies. Engineers thrive on ownership and accountability, approaching every project with a practical, execution-oriented mindset.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in Go, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar languages
- High ownership mindset; biased to action and willing to assume responsibility for all aspects of development and deployment for a specific military customer
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals; comfortable working in rapidly changing environments with dynamic objectives and user iteration
- Strong communication abilities with interest and aptitude to lead customer-facing engineering interactions
- Active U.S. Secret security clearance required; Top Secret preferred
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience working on software in defense, aerospace, or other complex operational domains
- Familiarity with logistics, supply chain, or sustainment challenges, especially in military contexts
- Experience deploying software to production environments and managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes) as well as edge infrastructure
- Exposure to data engineering, analytics, or machine learning in operational contexts
