Senior Software Developer building innovative solutions and automating security operations. Exploring and experimenting with security technologies in a creative engineering environment.
About the role
- Senior Software Engineer developing autonomous software for BlackSky’s satellite operations. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure real-time tasking and efficient satellite monitoring.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain software that enables autonomous satellite operations and real-time tasking.
- Develop and integrate services that interface with ground station infrastructure and satellite communication protocols.
- Build cloud-native microservices to support satellite tasking and monitoring.
- Collaborate with operations, communication engineers, flight software engineers, mission planning engineers, and other software teams to understand and refine technical requirements.
- Write clean, maintainable code with strong emphasis on safety, test coverage, and reliability.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and team planning discussions.
- Support on-call rotations and troubleshooting of live system operations as needed.
- Support Launch and Early Operations of new satellites.
- 10-15% travel required.
- Other job-related duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- A minimum of six (6) years of professional software development experience.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, C++).
- Experience developing and deploying microservices in cloud environments (e.g. AWS, GCS, Azure).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern version control systems (e.g. Git).
- Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to understand complex systems end to end.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a cross-functional team environment.
- The program this role supports requires being a US-born citizen.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
- Employer matching donations
- Professional development
- Mac or PC? Your choice!
- Awesome swag
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