Staff Network Backend Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA / San Diego, CA – In Office 3 Days/Week
About Point One Navigation
Point One Navigation is on a mission to bridge the digital and physical worlds through precision location. Our RTK Corrections Network and Positioning Engine deliver centimeter-level accuracy and high-confidence positioning for vehicles, robots, drones, and devices across industries. We're API-first, developer-focused, and pushing the boundaries of autonomy and automation.
Role Outcome
Staff Network Backend Engineers own the design, implementation, and reliability of the backend services and APIs that power Point One's RTK Correction Network - from correction-data ingestion and distribution to the customer-facing APIs that deliver positioning at scale.
This is an ownership-first role: you will design and build distributed systems that serve real-time corrections to hundreds of thousands of devices in the field, with the latency, availability, and the correctness that mission-critical positioning demands.
The RTK Corrections Network is the backbone connecting our reference stations to every device that depends on us. This team is responsible for keeping it fast, reliable, and scalable: designing services that handle growing traffic, responding to evolving customer needs, and ensuring the network stays observable, tested, and production-ready as it grows.
Success in this role means:
- Backend services are robust, performant, and scalable across a growing base of devices, customers, and geographies.
- Real-time corrections are delivered with low latency and high availability, even under load and partial failure.
- APIs are well-designed, well-documented, and easy for customers and internal teams to build on.
- Engineering decisions reflect a deep understanding of real-world constraints - latency, throughput, reliability, scale, and cost.
- Customer challenges are met with well-designed, durable solutions.
- Observability and testing are treated as first-class responsibilities, giving the team and customers confidence in every release.
Immediate Areas of Focus
Own Backend Services and APIs
- Lead design, implementation, and optimization of backend services that power the RTK Corrections Network and customer-facing APIs.
- Build and evolve API-first services that are clear, well-documented, and reliable for internal and external developers.
