Senior Software and Reliability Engineer - C++ (AU)

Work with cutting edge technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. DroneShield (ASX:DRO) offers an opportunity to solve some of world’s most challenging technical problems in the Electronic Warfare, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, RF sensing, Sensor Fusion and distributed systems. Working with high profile customers across militaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, law enforcement and many others.

With 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.

This role is in the DroneShield Sydney headquarters in Pyrmont, Sydney. There are approximately 200 staff based in the 4,000sqm facility today, scheduled to grow to approximately 300 staff by end of 2026. Overseas on the ground presence includes Virginia (USA), Denmark, Germany and Dubai, as well as distributors in over 70 countries globally.

About the role

DroneShield is seeking a C++ System Reliability Engineer with relevant experience to join the team in Sydney, NSW, Australia.

The position will report to the VisionAI team lead. The Senior Software and Reliability Engineer ensures the system's robust performance, reliability, and scalability by monitoring its health, logging critical events, and proactively identifying areas of improvement through automated testing and optimisation. The ideal candidate should be an expert in working with complex real-world systems and will work closely within the Vision team to develop robust real-time camera-based drone detection technologies.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations 

• Develop a monitoring system for the whole VisionAI system
• Improve and maintain a consistent logging system throughout all the components of the VisionAI system
• Ensure and improve system stability through various optimisations
• Review and upgrade system architecture to ensure scalability
• Refactor code design and architecture to ensure modularity, stability, scalability, and performance
• Write unit tests and end-to-end tests
• Optimise existing code
• Eliminate work through automation
• Develop a set of debugging tools for faster and more efficient debugging processes
• Develop a user error feedback system
• Engage with stakeholders in system troubleshooting and support

Qualifications, Experience and Skills 

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience working in a similar role
• Strong knowledge of C++

Nice to have

• Experience with building resiliency systems
• Networking knowledge
• Experience with handling video streams (Cuda, DeepStream, ffmpeg, etc.)
• Experience with low-latency software design
• Experience working with edge devices (Nvidia Jetson)
• Experience with IoT, robotics, integrating sensors and actuators
• Experience gRPC communication protocol

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