Company Overview

Realm Alliance is building a military-grade physical security operating system for corporate security in the natural resources industry. Our product unifies disjointed surveillance systems into a cohesive, collaborative, real-time common operating picture centered around the TAK platform. We are addressing critical pain points around collaboration and data integration in physical security, particularly in high-stakes, austere environments like remote mines.

Responsibilities

As our founding software engineer, you will:

• Shape Realm's team, engineering culture, technology decisions, and development practices.

• Work on a product with a large degree of white space to build into and a large technical surface area.

• Work directly with our CEO who was previously CTO and cofounder of Blend, a publicly traded fintech company.

Your technical work will encompass:

• Backend engineering (TypeScript)

• Infrastructure (Kubernetes)

• Web front-end (TypeScript)

• Integrations with third-party services and surveillance equipment

• AI/ML and analytics

• TAK (Server, WinTAK, ATAK) plugins and open-source contributions

• ATAK plugin development in Kotlin

Requirements

• Strong coding skills and computer science fundamentals

• Strong problem-solving skills

• >2 years of work experience in a software engineering role

• Familiarity with core infrastructure/DevOps tools (Linux, Git, Kubernetes)

• Entrepreneurial work ethic

• Strong network of world-class engineers, designers, and product managers to help build our team

• Enthusiasm for building at all levels of the stack, from low-level infrastructure details to high-level team building and product work

• Great judgment and intuition about security, testing, code quality, tech debt, and hiring

• Appreciation of functional programming and type safety

Nice-to-haves

• Experience or aptitude for adjacent areas: product, design, customer interaction, engineering management

• Experience working at a startup as an engineer, founder, CTO, engineering manager, or tech lead

• Passion for defense and security technology

• Based in or willing to relocate to Austin, TX

Interview Process

1. Programming quiz

2. Live coding interview

3. Behavioral interview with each founder

4. Reference checks