Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer
Full‑Time Position | Portland, Oregon
Rapta is revolutionizing precision US manufacturing with an agentic native AI Platform trusted by the nations top defense primes. Backed by top investors and growing 521% year‑over‑year, were a Portland‑based team building computer vision and robotics technology that keeps Americas most critical production lines running flawlessly. If you want to do meaningful work at the intersection of AI and advanced manufacturing, wed love to meet you.

Position Overview
Were seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team in developing distributed, cutting‑edge applied AI systems. This is a full‑time position working directly with our engineering team to drive technical innovation and mentor mid‑level and junior engineers.

What Youll Do

Contribute to the architecture and development of production‑grade distributed microservice systems running on Linux

Drive technical initiatives to advance our service mesh, contract‑first APIs, and inter‑service communication patterns

Build scalable data processing pipelines and high‑throughput service infrastructure

Design and evolve protobuf contracts and gRPC service definitions across the platform

Provide technical guidance to junior team members

What Were Looking For

10+ years of professional experience developing distributed backend systems on Linux

Deep curiosity for all software and systems architecture topics

Expert‑level Python programming and software architecture skills

Strong system design skills with a focus on service boundaries, API contracts, and fault tolerance

Fluency operating in Linux environments — comfortable living in the shell, reading logs, and reasoning about process, network, and filesystem behavior

Excellence in technical communication and documentation

Required Technical Skills

Expertise in prompt engineering and AI‑assisted development as a daily practice — Claude Code, Augment, Copilot, or equivalent is a force multiplier in your workflow, not a novelty

Expertise in designing and operating microservice architectures at scale

Deep experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers — schema evolution, streaming RPCs, interceptors, and contract‑first development

Proficiency with version control and CI/CD practices

Experience with containerized deployments (Docker on Linux hosts), service discovery, and distributed computing

Strong grasp of observability: distributed tracing, structured logging, and metrics

Highly Competitive Candidates Will Also Bring

Previous experience in manufacturing, industrial automation, or quality control systems

Experience with monorepo build systems (Bazel, Buck, Pants) and polyglot protobuf code generation

Familiarity with backwards/forwards compatibility patterns and API versioning at scale

Experience with real‑time processing and edge computing constraints on resource‑constrained Linux devices

Experience with configuration management and infrastructure‑as‑code (Ansible, Terraform) for Linux fleet operations

Why Join Us?

Work with cutting‑edge technology in a high‑impact industry

Meaningful early‑stage equity at a late seed‑stage company

Competitive compensation and benefits package

Professional development and learning opportunities

Opportunity to shape manufacturing technology that impacts American industry

Location Requirements
Candidates local to the Portland, Oregon metro area will be considered highly competitive for this role. While we will consider remote applicants on a case‑by‑case basis, local presence is strongly valued and may be a deciding factor.

Equal Opportunity
Rapta is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

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