Software Engineer
Brumby, Sydney, New South Wales, AU
Brumby, Sydney, New South Wales, AU
We have a team of 6 which is growing steadily, including Computer Vision, Robotics, AI Engineers and a Chief of Staff. We are looking to add a Software Engineer to this team. This is a hands-on role with full ownership of the platform, freeing the rest of engineering to focus on what happens in the air.
You will build the backbone that connects Brumby’s fleet to the cloud and keeps it running from anywhere. Our aircraft and docks operate on remote cattle stations where the connection might be a patchy 4G signal, a Starlink dish, or nothing at all for hours. Your job is to make sure every flight log, detection, and video feed makes it back to AWS eventually, and that every software update makes it out to our fleet.
On the cloud side, you will build and run our infrastructure. You will build and maintain everything from the customer backend and app, to our in-house software for planning missions, monitoring aircraft, and making sense of the data coming back from the field.
As the fleet grows, you will make sure the platform grows with it. That means shipping updates without grounding aircraft, knowing something is wrong before a customer does, and building systems that recover on their own.
Application deadline: November 16, 2026, 5PM AEDT.
The Company
Founded in 2025 by Sam Rogers, who grew up managing 6,000 head on a North Queensland cattle station, Brumby builds autonomous drones that move and monitor cattle across the world’s largest properties. We’re replacing helicopters and motorbikes with drones that herd cattle, count herds, and monitor pasture on their own. Helicopter mustering is expensive, dangerous, and still misses cattle. Our drones launch from a dock, fly the paddock, do the work, and come home.
We went through YC (W26) and raised a seed round from the best investors in the valley. Our team is small and highly technical, and we’re already working with some of the largest ranches in the world. Engineering is based in Sydney, but the work happens everywhere. Expect to write code at a desk, in a truck, and in the dirt. We work hard because our ranchers do.
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