Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company that operates a sophisticated space-based intelligence platform, providing satellite imagery and analytics to various clients. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Ground & Control team, responsible for developing software that controls and monitors satellite operations. The role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure the safety and efficiency of mission-critical systems.
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 software solutions 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
- Anticipated 10-15% travel required to customer site
- Other job-related duties as assigned
Skills
- 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 both cloud environments (e.g. AWS, GCS, Azure) and on-premise Kubernetes-based environments
- 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
- Some of the programs this role supports may require being a US-citizen
- Master's degree (or higher) in a related technical field
- At least eight years of professional software development experience
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible) and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Nomad)
- Understanding of system safety, fault tolerance, and recovery strategies
- Comfort working in high-availability, mission-critical software environments
- Prior experience with satellite operations, ground stations, or others aerospace-related domains (e.g. X-Band, UHF, or telemetry)
- Active secret or higher U.S. security clearance
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
- 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
Company Overview
BlackSky is a space-based intelligence company that delivers real-time imagery with global rapid revisit, analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, US, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.blacksky.com/.