Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage build systems, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS.
• Drive work to timely completion using task management tools like Jira in an Agile-like environment; participate and lead in status and standup meetings, sprint planning, tasking, etc.
• Collaborate with other ESG software team members and other cross-functional engineers from multiple disciplines to deliver mission-critical software infrastructure and tools that are on-time and high quality.
• Ensure that adequate documentation, test, inspection, and analysis is delivered and performed to verify compliance with requirements and other goals.
• Execute and provide feedback for flight software design, development, unit tests and releases processes.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
• At least six (6) years of experience delivering and maintaining commercial/embedded.

software in a production environment.

• Expertise in engineering clean and maintainable Python and Bash code.
• Experience with version control and continuous integration.
• Expertise with developer took chains, build tools and pipeline, such as Git, GitLab, GitLab CI, Jenkins, JIRA.
• Expertise working with Linux toolchains and environments (Gnu toolchain, QEMU, Buildroot, Yocto).
• Experience working in Agile/SCRUM environment.
• Proven experience delivering products on time and on budget.
• Excellent root cause analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work across teams, skill sets, communication in a diverse environment.
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision.
• Due to program requirements, this role requires US citizenship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing and verifying embedded software
• Bonus if experience building or maintaining hardware for embedded software testing
• Experience programming in Python
• Experience programming in C/C++
• Bonus for ability to debug C/C++ and perform fault analysis
• Experience maintaining CI/CD systems, or in maintaining infrastructure as code
• Experience with QEMU and device emulation
• Experience with buildroot or Yocto

Benefits

Life at BlackSky for full-time US benefits eligible employees includes:

• 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

• The anticipated salary range for candidates in Seattle, WA is $145,000-165,000 per year.
• The final compensation package offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on specific background and education.
• BlackSky is a multi-state employer, and this pay scale may not reflect salary ranges in other states or locations outside of Seattle, WA.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. #LI-Hybrid

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