Database Integration Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Database Integration Engineer

• Focus: Satellite ground mission data integrations, database architecture, and telemetry data pipelines

• Clearance: TS/SCI required (Top Secret or DoE Q with SCI eligibility)

Description

Design and deploy software integrations and high-performance database solutions for ingesting, processing, and storing real-time satellite telemetry and payload data. Architect relational, NoSQL, and time-series databases and build robust ETL/data pipelines for TT&C and mission payload data. Troubleshoot complex bottlenecks between ground software applications and backend database infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Support design and deployment of applications interfacing with ground mission systems to capture real-time satellite data

• Architect, implement, and optimize relational, NoSQL, and time-series databases for high-throughput, low-latency satellite data streams

• Build data pipelines to parse, transform, and load satellite TT&C and mission payload data into centralized data stores

• Troubleshoot and resolve integration bottlenecks between ground software applications and backend databases

• Collaborate with ground engineers, mission operators, and software teams to ensure operational mission requirements are met

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer or Data Sciences (or related) with 5+ years experience; or Master’s degree with 7+ years; or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree

• Active Top Secret or DoE Q clearance with SCI eligibility; eligible for SCI indoctrination within 3 months; able to obtain and maintain TS/SCI

• Minimum 3 years combined database engineering experience with some software development

• Understanding of software development for satellite ground systems, ground stations, or mission control centers

• Expert-level database design, deployment, and optimization (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB, or similar telemetry time-series databases)

• Programming proficiency in Python, C++, Java, or Go

• Deep understanding of satellite data structures, telemetry parsing, and modeling space-domain data in a database environment

• Demonstrated full-lifecycle engineering ability to support integration code and build database schema

Benefits

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000 per year.