Senior Software Engineer

Iridium Satellite, LLC • Reston, VA

34d • Onsite

About The Position

Iridium is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. This role involves applying cutting-edge technologies to rapidly develop and deploy user service capabilities within a satellite operations environment. The Senior Software Engineer will also identify and implement ideas and solutions within the development team to support cross-functional efforts across all areas of software development.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, or other engineering discipline
• 8+ years software programming experience
• Coding experience on Agile based teams
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues to groups outside of your team or those who are unfamiliar with the topic
• Have confidence and be able to easily build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of your team
• Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions and come up with out-of-the-box solutions
• Be proactive in providing feedback and be enthusiastic in sharing your knowledge with others
• Capable of prioritizing your own tasks and potentially the tasks of others while making sure deadlines are met
• Proactivity in seeking out ways to continuously improve yourself and gain new knowledge, including the ability to learn the different software that make up the System Performance and Analysis software
• Ability to comprehend technical documentation
• Have a positive attitude to take on ever increasing software development tasks
• Passion for working in a team driven environment consisting of operators, software testers, senior developers, and system engineers
• Be a U.S. Citizen
• Have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Kubernetes / Docker / Podman / ArgoCD
• Experience with CI/CD Pipelining (GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, BitBucket)
• Experience with Linux based environments and bash shell scripting
• Experience with Python / Java / C++ / Type Script / Perl
• Experience with RESTful / HTTP / ELK or similar / WebSockets
• Experience with XML / JSON / SQL
• Experience with SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL based DBs (e.g., Mongo)
• Experience with js / Apache Web Server
• Experience with Security Vulnerability Analysis and Procedures (CVE, TLS)
• Experience with Atlassian management/software development tools: Jira / Git / Crucible / Confluence
• Experience with Micro services architectures
• Experience with Automated testing frameworks
• Experience with Gov and non-Gov Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments

Responsibilities

• Work independently to develop and enhance software to meet the requirements of the SDA project
• Develop optimized code for both scalability and performance
• Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for software development (Atlassian tool suite desired)
• Create or maintain build environments for software products
• Play a key role in planning and executing software releases per stakeholder/program schedules and budgets
• Update issue/feature data in Atlassian Project/Software tracking tools
• Follow existing Iridium processes for Change Control, Prioritization, Risk Management, Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Management, Build and Test software deployments and use advanced knowledge to assist in development of process/procedure documentation materials
• Edit, structure and present data, concepts and arguments clearly and succinctly through briefings and documentation
• Respond to questions within scope from stakeholders, as appropriate

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior