Backend Software Engineer - Distribution

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About Rune

Rune Technologies builds mission-critical software for military logistics and sustainment. Our flagship product is TyrOS, an AI-enabled logistics command and control platform that gives commanders a single, real-time operating picture of their sustainment fight, from inventory and distribution to medical and operational planning, even in degraded and contested environments.

We're not a traditional defense contractor. We're a small, fast-moving team that combines deep operational experience in and with the DoD with the software discipline of the best product companies, and we apply that combination to a customer set that desperately needs it. We stay close to our users by embedding directly with military units during exercises and rotations, and we ship constantly based on what we learn.

The U.S. military and its allies face a real logistics modernization problem. We're building the software to solve it.

ABOUT RUNE

Rune Technologies is here to revolutionize the status quo of military logistics and sustainment through the deployment of AI-enabled solutions. Combining elite Silicon Valley software expertise with deep operational experience working in and with the Department of Defense, Rune builds cutting-edge software to solve the most critical logistics challenges faced by the U.S. military and its allies.

Rune’s flagship product is TyrOS, an advanced software platform designed to enhance logistics at tactical and operational echelons, providing unified, comprehensive management of inventory, personnel, equipment, and distribution. TyrOS integrates critical information for holistic, data-driven logistics decisions, leveraging AI for decision support, predictive analytics, and optimization at machine speed.

Rune’s mission is to support and enable the military logistics and sustainment communities with software built to meet the needs of the next fight.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Distribution team at Rune is building the software that determines how supplies, equipment, and other critical resources move through complex logistics networks — from requirements and inventory availability through planning, allocation, routing, dispatch, tracking, and delivery.

Military distribution is a dynamic systems problem. Routes change. Transportation assets become unavailable. Priorities shift. Inventory moves. Communications degrade. Threat conditions evolve. The software supporting these decisions has to continuously reconcile changing information and turn it into reliable, executable actions.

As a Backend Software Engineer focused on Distribution, you will design and build the production systems at the center of these workflows. You’ll own services that model logistics networks, coordinate movement across nodes and transportation modes, manage state across distributed systems, and enable users to rapidly plan and replan as operational conditions change.

This is not a generic backend role. We are particularly interested in engineers
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oaches such as MIP, LP, CP, graph algorithms, heuristics, or vehicle-routing techniques.

• Familiarity with optimization libraries or tools such as OR-Tools, Gurobi, or other commercial solvers.
• Experience with geospatial, temporal, transportation, or logistics datasets.
• Experience designing systems that must continuously replan or respond to changes in demand, capacity, availability, priority, or external conditions.
• Experience with event-driven systems and architectures where information arrives asynchronously from multiple sources.
• Experience with systems deployed in constrained environments, including edge compute, unreliable networks, or latency-sensitive applications.
• Experience with military logistics, defense software, contested logistics, or Department of Defense users and systems.
• Background working alongside operations research, applied mathematics, optimization, or data science teams.

Benefits

Rune offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees to include a full suite of insurance options at no cost for employees and low-cost to spouses and dependents. Highly competitive equity grants are also  included in the majority of full time offers and are considered part of Rune's total compensation package. Benefits include:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans; premiums 100% covered by Rune for all employees; exceptionally low premiums for spouses and dependents
• Basic life insurance and disability 100% covered for all employees by Rune; option to purchase additional life insurance available
• ‘Take the time off that you need, when you need it’ paid time off, not accrual based
• Generous company holiday calendar including a holiday shutdown in December
• Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service, medical events, and parental leave
• Full 401(k) retirement plan for all full-time eligible employees
• Company-funded commuter benefits
• Free access to on-site gym at office