Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer role in the Ground Software group building and supporting telemetry and commanding capabilities for spacecraft.

Responsibilities

• Develop frontend and backend components for a spacecraft ground software system within an agile team
• Design, modernize, and evolve software used during satellite assembly, integration, and test
• Conduct peer reviews and author test cases and procedures to validate software behavior
• Document and maintain architectures, requirements, algorithms, and system interfaces
• Contribute to software requirements evaluation, generation, design, implementation, and testing discussions
• Partner with flight software, integration and testing (I&T), and mission operations to clarify user needs
• Find opportunities to transition legacy-based systems to modern, high-performance, reliable software architectures
• Share technical knowledge and support growth of fellow software engineers
• Provide on-call support to respond to incidents and anomalies, improving automated performance monitoring and alerting

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident
• 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field (or four additional years of experience substituting for the degree)
• Programming experience with C++, Java, and Python
• Strong DevOps background using infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitLab), and containerization (e.g., Docker)
• Experience building services on AWS, including serverless computing technologies
• Experience working with a large shared codebase and continuous integration and deployment workflows and tooling

Technologies

• C++
• Java
• Python
• Terraform
• GitLab
• Docker
• AWS
• Serverless computing

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Health and welfare insurance
• 401(k) to eligible employees

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing command and telemetry processing, mission operations, ground segments, and/or satellite software
• Experience designing and/or developing web-based observability, data visualization, and UI applications
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB)
• Experience using automated testing frameworks (JUnit, PyTest, Boost)
• Experience with user-interface design/development (Tcl/Tk, React)
• Experience with service-oriented and micro-service architectures
• Professional written communications
• Highly focused self-starter who enjoys solving problems
• Passion for learning and teaching new technical skills

Location: Palo Alto, CA (remote)

Salary: USD 102,000 - 195,000 per yearly