Staff Software & Data Engineer

Ursa Major • Berthoud, CO

85d • $160,000 - $185,000

About The Position

At Ursa Major, the journey to space starts with the engines. Behind every engine is the data and software that powers smarter decisions and continuous improvement. We're growing our internal software capabilities to accelerate how we design, build, and test rocket engines, to fly faster. We are looking for a Staff Software and Data Engineer to generate new business intelligence applications, inside Palantir's Foundry platform. You will establish the standards for your team for how these applications are built, tested, developed and deployed. You will be working with a Product Owner to design, implement, deploy and maintain applications inside Palantir Foundry in accordance with stakeholder needs and requests. You'll also have expertise that you use to guide Ursa Major to a healthy data ecosystem internally, designing and guiding our approach for data engineering. Your work will have a larger impact than just implementing tools and processes. Your work will directly shape how Ursa Major continues its growth as a local manufacturing company that is enabling the future of both defense and commercial aerospace.

Requirements

• US Citizenship or Permanent Residency
• 8+ years of Professional Software Development experience
• 3+ years of Data Engineering experience
• 2+ years of Hands-on Experience with Palantir Foundry
• Strong understanding of data modeling principles and data warehousing concepts.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with manufacturing, industrial systems, or IoT data

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for the team
• Coach and mentor junior team members
• Design, build and maintain data pipelines using Palantir Foundry (Code Repositories, Contour, Ontology, etc.)
• Collaborate with Product Owner and stakeholders to design and build workflows, intuitive tooling, analytic workflows and dashboards
• Design and document data logic, lineage, and tooling for discoverability and maintainability
• Identify opportunities for system optimization and automation
• Develop Ontology objects to manage and reason over data within Palantir Foundry
• Configure and maintain data integrations from various source systems into Foundry.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the development of best practices for Foundry development, proactively identifying best practices the team should adopt
• Contribute to the development of training materials and documentation for Foundry users
• Work collaboratively within agile-inspired development methodology

Benefits

• Base compensation range of $160,000 - $185,000

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Machinery Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees