Staff Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Staff Software Engineer (Ground Software)

• Focus: Full-stack telemetry and commanding products for spacecraft ground operations

Description

You will develop, test, and operate highly available, scalable full-stack software that enables commanding spacecraft and processing satellite telemetry. You will modernize and unify ground software products to support manufacturing, launch base operations, and mission operations across multiple satellite programs. The role emphasizes automation, peer reviews, documentation, and on-call support to improve monitoring and alerting.

Responsibilities

• Develop frontend and backend software for spacecraft ground software systems in an agile environment

• Design and modernize software solutions for assembly, integration, and test

• Perform peer reviews; create test cases and procedures to verify functionality

• Document and maintain architectures, requirements, algorithms, and system interfaces

• Participate in software requirements, design, implementation, and testing discussions

• Collaborate with flight software, integration & test (I&T), and mission operations teams

• Identify opportunities to migrate legacy systems to modern, high-performance architectures

• Support team growth by sharing knowledge and helping others develop

• Respond to incidents/anomalies via on-call and improve automated performance monitoring and alerting

Requirements

• U.S. citizen or permanent resident

• 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field (or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree)

• Programming experience in C++, Java, and Python

• DevOps experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab), and containerization (e.g., Docker)

• Experience building services on AWS, including serverless computing technologies

• Experience with large shared codebases and continuous integration/deployment workflows and tooling

Benefits

• Paid time off

• Health and welfare insurance

• 401(k) for eligible employees

• Salary ranges vary by U.S. location (e.g., $102,000–$170,000 in several states; $117,000–$195,000 in California; $113,000–$188,000 in the Washington, DC metro area)