Backend Systems Engineer Mission Software & Cloud Connectivity (Gurugram)

We're Hiring: Backend Systems Engineer Mission Software & Cloud Connectivity Full time | Core team LAT Aerospace | Perception & Autonomy At LAT Aerospace, were building Indias first clean-sheet hybrid-electric STOL aircraft and a next-generation autonomy stack powering aircraft for complex missions. Our team is kicking off a new chapter developing the full flight-control, obstacle-avoidance, GNSS-denied navigation, and swarm-coordination layers that will define LATs autonomy architecture. Were hiring a Backend Systems Engineer to build the high-performance backend that powers LATs mission-control stack. What youll do - Design and develop backend services for mission planning, swarm management, telemetry ingestion, and real-time operator tools. - Optimize real-time video streaming pipelines transcoding, adaptive bitrate, low-latency transport, failover, and bandwidth efficiency. - Build and maintain robust APIs and data services for mission software, ensuring high throughput and low-latency performance. - Implement communication protocols for drone ground cloud data exchange; handle unreliable links, reconnect logic, and packet prioritization. - Architect scalable backend infrastructure to support multi-drone missions, swarm telemetry aggregation, and perception outputs. - Integrate mission software with cloud services for logging, long-term storage, analytics, and real-time monitoring. - Ensure backend reliability through observability tooling, metrics, tracing, and automatic recovery mechanisms. What we're looking for - Strong experience building backend systems using Node.js, Python, Go, or similar languages. - Deep understanding of real-time communication, streaming protocols (WebRTC, RTSP, RTP, SRT, gRPC, WebSockets), or low-latency data transport. - Experience designing scalable REST or event-driven architectures and distributed systems. - Familiarity with AWS and deploying production-grade backend services. - Strong knowledge of databases, caching, message queues, and optimizing high-throughput systems. - Ability to diagnose complex backend issues using logs, traces, profilers, and observability tools. Why LAT - Core-team role building the autonomy brain of Indias most ambitious aerospace startup. - Ownership, speed, and the prospect to define a new class of systems from scratch. .