LeoLabs is a company focused on building a living map of activity in space through their global radar network and AI-enabled analytics platform. They are seeking a highly experienced Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to contribute to a collaborative team, designing and delivering customer-facing analytics, mission-critical APIs, and scalable backend services.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, distributed backend services and APIs
- Drive architecture decisions for major components and cross-team integrations
- Mentor, guide, and support other engineers through design reviews, pairing, and informal coaching
- Collaborate with front-end, data, and infrastructure teams to define end-to-end solutions
- Ensure reliability, observability, security, and performance across production systems
- Define and improve engineering practices, architecture patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling
- Own critical services through the full development lifecycle—including operation, monitoring, and on-call support
- Evaluate and integrate new technologies and approaches to improve robustness and developer experience
- Work directly with product and cross-functional partners to influence technical direction and roadmap planning
Requirements:
- B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time building cloud-based systems at scale
- Demonstrated expertise designing, building, deploying, and operating distributed backend services
- Deep proficiency in Python (required) with production experience in at least one additional language (Go, C++, or similar)
- Strong understanding of architecture patterns, service boundaries, message-driven workflows, and API design
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure) and containerized deployments
- Expertise with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL) and message brokers (Kafka, SQS, or similar)
- Strong grasp of testing strategies, observability, CI/CD practices, and reliability engineering
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams
- Comfortable participating in and guiding on-call rotations for critical systems
- Eligibility for US security clearance
- Deep experience with Kubernetes including container orchestration, scaling, operational best practices, and monitoring in cloud environments
- Demonstrated full-stack capability with TypeScript/JavaScript and modern UI frameworks
- Background in Math/Physics, AI/ML, or Orbital Mechanics
- Experience operating in a high-availability or mission-critical environment
- Active US security clearance