About Raad
Raad coordinates thousands of FAA-certified pilots to deliver persistent aerial coverage of U.S. critical infrastructure. Our network conducts missions ranging from thermal solar inspections to LiDAR corridor mapping and large-scale roof and façade captures.
The Raad Platform powers everything: ranking pilots by reputation and equipment, matching missions to airspace and payload constraints, automating dispatch and flight planning, streaming telemetry and imagery, and performing real-time QC while pilots are still in the field.
By abstracting aerial data collection into software and moving toward autonomous dock-based missions, Raad is building infrastructure that delivers ground-truth visual data at unprecedented speed and cost efficiency.
About the Role
You’ll be the stabilizing force in a fast-paced environment—owning infrastructure, networking, and daily Rails development. You’ll solve hard geospatial and data-ingest problems, shape architecture that scales 10×, and write code that touches real aircraft in motion.
Responsibilities
- Manage Raad’s infrastructure and networking stack.
- Write clean, reliable Ruby on Rails code daily.
- Eliminate technical debt and replace it with lean, performant systems.
- Build dashboards, customer APIs, and queues for mission dispatch, ingest, uploads, and QC.
- Define scalable product architecture as mission volume grows.
- Handle ingest/QC/streaming of millions of drone files from diverse networks.
- Optimize storage and processing pipelines for cost, redundancy, and throughput.
- Help build systems to autonomously coordinate thousands of drones.
Qualifications
- Deep Ruby on Rails experience.
- Strong focus on clarity, maintainability, and code hygiene.
- Calm, effective incident debugging.
- Familiarity with ArcGIS, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS-like infra.
Nice to Have
- Interest in drones, mapping, or geospatial data.
- Experience with geospatial processing pipelines.
- Early-stage startup or founding engineer experience.
- Personal projects showing depth and ownership.