Backend Software Engineer - Distribution

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.

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.

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.

• 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…