--- title: 'Backend Software Engineer - Distribution at Rune Technologies' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/backend-software-engineer-distribution-rune-technologies-rosslyn-zwc99e9rtf4m' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Backend Software Engineer - Distribution at Rune Technologies - **Company:** Rune Technologies - **Location:** Rosslyn, VA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runetech/0348a7e2-d1e6-4a46-a623-17d22be3d170 ## Job description ## 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 who have built software where system decisions directly affect real-world operations — logistics, transportation, fulfillment, routing, dispatch, warehousing, marketplace operations, supply chain, or similar domains. You will work closely with product engineers, optimization engineers, military domain experts, and platform teams to translate complicated operational workflows into resilient, scalable software. The result is a distribution capability that can operate from enterprise environments to the tactical edge and give military users a dramatically better way to understand, plan, and execute logistics movements. ## WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own the architecture and development of backend services supporting Rune’s distribution capabilities across TyrOS. - Design systems that support end-to-end logistics workflows including: - Transportation and movement planning - Routing and dispatch - Shipment creation and execution - Asset and capacity allocation - Multi-modal transportation - Scheduling and time-window management - Tracking and status reconciliation - Dynamic replanning when conditions change - Translate real-world logistics workflows into durable domain models, APIs, services, and event-driven systems. - Build systems that reconcile inventory, demand, transportation capacity, location, time, priority, and other operational constraints across distributed networks. - Develop performant, production-grade services in Go and integrate them directly into TyrOS and the broader Rune platform. - Integrate optimization and planning capabilities into operational software, turning algorithmic recommendations into reliable, understandable, and executable workflows. - Design systems capable of handling partial, delayed, conflicting, or changing information while maintaining a reliable representation of operational state. - Build APIs, messaging patterns, data pipelines, and backend infrastructure that allow distribution services to communicate effectively across Rune’s product ecosystem. - Design for environments where bandwidth, connectivity, compute, latency, and system availability may all be constrained. - Partner directly with military users and domain experts to understand how distribution actually operates, identify the highest-leverage problems, and convert ambiguous requirements into scalable software. - Make architectural decisions that balance speed of development with long-term reliability, maintainability, and extensibility. - Establish strong engineering practices around testing, observability, performance, failure recovery, and operational resilience. - Provide technical leadership to other engineers through system design, code review, mentorship, and ownership of complex cross-functional initiatives. ## QUALIFICATIONS - 7+ years of backend, platform, or distributed systems engineering experience, including substantial ownership of production-grade software. - Demonstrated experience building production systems in logistics, transportation, fulfillment, routing, dispatch, shipment management, warehousing, marketplace operations, supply chain, travel, operations planning, or another similarly complex operational domain. - Experience building software that supports real-world planning or operational decision-making, rather than exclusively transactional or CRUD-oriented backend applications. - Strong programming skills in one or more performant languages such as Go, C++, Java, or Rust. - Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts including service architecture, asynchronous processing, messaging, state management, failure handling, consistency, and system reliability. - Experience designing complex domain models and translating evolving business or operational requirements into maintainable software architecture. - Strong experience designing and consuming APIs and integrating services through messaging layers, event-driven architectures, and cloud infrastructure. - Experience working with large or complex structured datasets and building systems that continuously reconcile changing state. - Strong engineering fundamentals including profiling, testing, observability, code review, performance tuning, version control, and production debugging. - Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex technical projects from ambiguous problem definition through architecture, implementation, deployment, and production operation. - Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers, domain experts, operations researchers, and engineers across multiple parts of a software platform. ## DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience building software for transportation management, fleet management, freight, supply chain planning, warehouse management, order fulfillment, travel, logistics marketplaces, or network planning. - Experience with production optimization or planning systems involving routing, scheduling, allocation, matching, capacity planning, or other constrained decision-making problems. - Familiarity with optimization approaches 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 ## About Rune Technologies ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Rune Technologies builds AI-enabled predictive logistics software for military sustainment operations, enabling data-driven decision-making in contested environments. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Arlington, Virginia, United States - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: David Tuttle (CEO) and Peter Goldsborough (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Defense and Space Manufacturing / Military Logistics Software - **Target customers**: U.S. Department of Defense (Army, Marine Corps, Special Operations), allied nations, and government agencies - **Mission**: To be the trusted technology partner to rapidly deliver mission-aligned information essential to decision-making and execution of critical logistics and sustainment operations. ## Products & Services - **[TyrOS Platform](https://www.runetech.co/)**: An AI-enabled predictive logistics and sustainment platform that combines, organizes, and analyzes critical supply chain information. Features include: - **Predictive Analytics**: AI-driven forecasting of supply requirements based on past consumption, mission parameters, and doctrinal standards. - **Decision Support**: Machine-speed evaluation of inventory and transport for planned and ad-hoc supply operations. - **Intelligent Planning**: Automated, agile, and precise logistics planning for contested environments. - **Offline-First Architecture**: Mesh-based system that operates in denied, degraded, intermittent, or low-bandwidth (DDIL) conditions. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Total Funding**: $30.2 million across two rounds - **Seed Round** (February 2025): $6.2 million led by Andreessen Horowitz - **Series A** (August 2025): $24.0 million led by Human Capital - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, Human Capital, In-Q-Tel (IQT), U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL), U.S. Army (DEVCOM/CASCOM) - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 260% year-over-year to 40 employees - Active job postings: 20 (monthly growth of 81.8%, quarterly growth of 300%) - LinkedIn followers: 7,055 (yearly growth of 249.4%) - Signed agreements with U.S. Marine Corps and Army in September 2025 - Strategic investment from In-Q-Tel (IQT), a not-for-profit investor for the U.S. national security community ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep domain expertise**: Team combines military experience (U.S. Army, Marine Corps, JSOC, DARPA) with elite Silicon Valley engineering talent (Anduril, Facebook, Palantir, Amazon). - **Offline-first architecture**: Platform designed for contested environments where communications are denied or degraded—a critical differentiator for military use cases. - **Government partnerships**: Active CRADA with U.S. Army and partnership with Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, providing real-world validation and integration pathways. - **AI-native approach**: Machine-learning based estimation and predictive analytics replace manual, analog processes with machine-speed decision support. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Scaling the TyrOS platform, deepening partnerships with U.S. military branches, establishing data standards for military logistics (aligned with Army's UDRA and MOSA principles), and expanding support for allied nations. - **Growth direction**: Moving from experimentation and integration into emerging programs of record within the Department of Defense. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven work**: Directly contribute to national security and military effectiveness—"Logistics wins wars. Rune wins logistics." - **High-growth environment**: 260% headcount growth in the past year with 20 open positions across engineering, product, design, and talent. - **Elite team**: Work alongside veterans from Anduril, Palantir, Amazon, and the military special operations community. - **Technical challenges**: Build cutting-edge AI/ML systems, offline-first architectures, and mesh networks for the most demanding operational environments. - **Culture**: Combines Silicon Valley software engineering rigor with deep operational experience in defense. - **Location**: Headquarters in Arlington, VA with presence in Canada. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but likely flexible given talent distribution. - **Open roles include**: Full Stack Software Engineer, Backend Software Engineer (Maps & Routing), Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Product Manager, Senior Product Designer, Information Systems Security Engineer, Technical Recruiter. ## Sources 1. [runetech.co](https://www.runetech.co/) 2. [runetech.co/about](https://www.runetech.co/about) 3. [runetech.co/news/crada-mcwl](https://www.runetech.co/news/crada-mcwl) 4. [linkedin.com/company/runetech](https://www.linkedin.com/company/runetech) 5. 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