Role Overview
- Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud-based backend services and APIs
- Collaborate with front-end engineers, data teams, and infrastructure to deliver full-feature solutions
- Ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of production systems
- Integrate with internal and customer-facing systems using secure, robust practices
- Deploy services to both cloud and on-site environments
- Participate in the full Agile development lifecycle: planning, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering practices, tooling, and architecture
Requirements
- B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in a fast-paced development environment.
- Extensive experience designing, building, testing, deploying and maintaining cloud-based software services and APIs.
- Significant expertise in Python is required, with additional experience in languages such as Go or C++ considered a plus.
- Strong knowledge of software development and testing methodologies, best practices, and industry standards.
- Experience with cloud environments like AWS/GCP/Azure.
- Experience with databases like Postgres/MySQL.
- Experience building message-driven applications with tools such as Kafka and SQS.
- Solid understanding of Agile workflows and principles.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotations for critical issue response.
- Eligibility for US security clearance.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes, including container orchestration, scaling, and monitoring in cloud environments.
- Familiarity with building user interfaces with front-end technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript and HTML.
- Desired experience in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting applications using Kubernetes
- Background in Math/Physics, AI/ML, or Orbital Mechanics.
- Active US security clearance.
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Azure
- Cloud
- Google Cloud Platform
- JavaScript
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- MySQL
- Postgres
- Python
- TypeScript
- Go
Benefits
- Global workforce: flexible remote/hybrid opportunities
- Work on complex, meaningful missions with real-world impact
- Unlimited paid time off for most roles
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Access to the forefront of commercial space operations and defense innovation