Backend Engineer - Sensor Integration (AU) in Sydney, New South Wales at DroneShield Group Pty Ltd

Work with cutting edge AI 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 rapidly growing counterdrone sector.

Our customers are some of the most demanding in the world, including militaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, law enforcement and many others. The counterdrone sector is rapidly changing, with DroneShield being in an arms race against state-backed drone manufacturers globally.

With one of the largest listed defence company market capitalisations in Australia, now part of the ASX200 index, DroneShield is experiencing a period of hypergrowth. Revenue has surged from A$57 million in 2024 to over A$217 million in 2025, representing growth of more than 400% year-on-year, with record profitability and cashflow. The total addressable global market for counterdrone is assessed at approximately $100 billion, and is currently at the nascent stage with much of the growth still to come, with DroneShield well positioned as a global market leader, and the only public listed pure-play business in this sector.

The company has grown from 11 employees in 2017 to over 450 staff globally today, and is on track to reach around 550 by the end of 2026. This expansion includes investment of over A$50 million annually in R&D, a global pipeline exceeding A$2.5 billion, and continuous scaling of production capacity to meet accelerating demand.

The role is based at DroneShield’s central Sydney headquarters. Overseas on-the-ground presence includes Virginia (USA), Netherlands, Denmark, Mexico and Dubai, as well as distributors in over 70 countries worldwide.

About the role

The company is seeking a strong Backend Engineer with relevant experience to join the development team in Sydney.

The role is primarily focused on the development of DroneShield product DroneSentry-C2.
Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations

• Contribute to the development of our C2 product to meet the demanding operational requirements in real-world deployments aligned to the long-term product vision.
• Design and develop features from conceptualisation to realisation working closely with the global software engineering team.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• More than 3 years’ experience in software development
• Design and implement Golang microservices for sensor ingestion, decoding, fusion, and event streaming (or relevant typed languages like C++/Rust).
• Experience working with two or more from the following: distributed and parallel systems, Unix/Linux environments, web application development, developing large software systems, and/or security software development.
• Experience developing microservices infrastructure is ideal
• Familiar with Docker, Postman, GitLab, AWS is favourable
• You are experienced working with modern infrastructure and tools
• You are comfortable running your software in Linux environments
• You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming and automated testing.
• You’re familiar with designing and building distributed and scalable systems
• An abundance of ambition and motivation to grow the company and compete with the big players in the industry

Note for recruitment agencies: we do not accept floated candidates from external recruiters unless they were instructed to do so.