Senior Software Engineer
Iridium Satellite, LLC•Reston, VA
•Hybrid
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 lead complex design and development efforts, owning significant components or services, and driving improvements in reliability, scalability, and security across space, ground, and cloud-enabled systems. The ideal candidate will enjoy influencing technical direction, mentoring other engineers, and collaborating cross-functionally to deliver mission-critical capabilities within a satellite ground operations environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, or other engineering discipline.
- 8+ years software programming experience on Agile based teams.
- Strong proficiency in one or more languages and demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Experience designing scalable systems and improving performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with sound engineering judgment.
- 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.
- Confidence and ability to easily build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of your team.
- 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.
- Proactive in providing feedback and enthusiastic in sharing knowledge with others.
- Capable of prioritizing own tasks and potentially the tasks of others while making sure deadlines are met.
- Work in the office at least 3 or more days a week.
- Be a U.S. Citizen.
- Be able to obtain and maintain U.S. Government security clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Kubernetes / Docker / Podman / ArgoCD.
- Experience with CI/CD Pipelining (GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, BitBucket).
- Experience with Python / Java / C++ / Type Script / Perl.
- 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
- Design and implementation for complex features, components, or services.
- Own technical execution and quality outcomes for assigned subsystems.
- Drive best practices in CI/CD, automation, testing, and secure coding.
- Lead root cause analysis for high-impact issues and implement preventive improvements.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical coaching.
- 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.
- Assist in development of process/procedure documentation materials using advanced knowledge.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to shape requirements, interfaces, and technical plans.
- Edit, structure and present data, concepts and arguments clearly and succinctly through briefings and documentation.
Benefits
- Award-winning and innovative workplace.
- Opportunity to work with breakthrough technologies.
- Opportunity to work in the space industry.
- Opportunity to make a difference in the world.
- Empowering and inclusive culture.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
