Sr Engineer, Software

BlackSky•Seattle, WA

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company that owns and operates a space-based intelligence platform, providing satellite imagery, automated analytics, and high-frequency monitoring. The company is trusted by military, intelligence, and commercial organizations to deliver foresight into critical matters. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand, and anticipate change. The Satellite Embedded Software Group (ESG) is seeking a Senior Software Build Engineer for an individual contributor role reporting to the Director of Flight Software. This role is responsible for end-to-end build systems, configuration, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tool integration, including device emulators and emulation environments. The position also contributes to software requirements and test plan support. As a senior member, the engineer will have a significant business impact across multiple programs, collaborating with the embedded systems group and cross-functional teams. The preferred location is Tukwila, WA, but remote candidates will be considered, with a preference for 1-2 days a week in the Tukwila office.

Requirements

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.
This position may support programs which require US citizenship.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree (master’s or PhD) in a relevant field of study.
Comfortable interfacing with physical hardware.
Knowledge of FPGA (Verilog, HDL) build tools and environments.
Working knowledge of hardware interfaces (e.g. GPIO, I 2 C, PHY, RS-422), or high-speed interfaces (e.g. 10G Ethernet).
Experience with Real Time, Fault Tolerant systems.
Familiarity with C/C++ or Rust.

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.

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