Staff SW Engineer, Full Stack
About The Position
BlackSky is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Engineer to join their labs team. This role will focus on supporting production AI/ML products by integrating GIS and machine learning workflows with dynamic web interfaces. The engineer will be responsible for delivering geospatial intelligence using expertise in Python/Go microservices, Cloud Infrastructure, Relational Databases, and React UI/UX. The position is critical for ensuring the delivery of consistent, reliable, and relevant AI/ML products to BlackSky’s user base. The ideal candidate will have experience in geospatial software engineering, databases, user interfaces, cloud infrastructure, cloud microservices, operations, and testing. Familiarity with satellite imagery or similar datasets, agile development, AWS/Kubernetes, and on-prem/airgapped deployment environments is also desired. The role requires an independent contributor who can manage their own efforts, is an independent thinker, and is willing to learn new tools and technologies. This position reports to the Manager of the BlackSky labs team. While the preferred location is Herndon, VA, remote candidates in certain states will be considered.
Requirements
- Minimum of eight years of hands-on experience as a software engineer with at least three years focused on full stack development.
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, or another computational field or equivalent experience (four years equivalent for bachelor's degree).
- Demonstrated experience designing and building scalable production software solutions and architectures, especially for machine learning or image processing.
- Strong Python3 proficiency or GO proficiency and experience writing production software for data ETL, REST APIs, micro-services, geospatial, or data analytics, and cloud deployment.
- Hands on experience with cloud services such as AWS EKS, S3, EC2, Aurora / RDS, SQS, SNS, Batch, etc.
- Experience writing software to integrate with third-party APIs, performing data ETL, and managing complex data at scale in relational data stores.
- Strong React or other UI framework proficiency, with an understanding of REST and frontend service design and integration.
- Strong ability to communicate concepts and software system results with customers, management, and the technical team, highlighting actionable insights.
- Due to program requirements, candidates must hold US citizenship.
Nice To Haves
- Over ten years of hands-on experience as a software engineer.
- Advanced degree in a relevant field of study.
- Experience with machine learning or computer vision.
- Experience with on-prem or airgapped deployments.
- Experience with remote sensing datasets and image preprocessing and manipulation methods for sensors such as Sentinel, LandSat, BlackSky, Airbus, Planet, or WorldView.
- Experience with Infrastructure solutions including (scaling and deploying models in the cloud using AWS solutions such as Kubernetes, ClearML, Nvidia Triton, Kubeflow, Torch Serve, Argo, etc.).
Responsibilities
- Deployment and integration of computer vision solutions for next-generation satellite imagery analytics.
- Ensure high-quality and production-ready Python or Go services.
- Manage cloud infrastructure and code deployment to AWS, Kubernetes, or other environments.
- Develop novel React UI geospatial applications for imagery and analytic visualization.
- Develop and deploy relational database schemas for GIS data, imagery, and analytics, primarily using PostGres.
- Take part in the entire project lifecycle from requirements development to deployment.
- Serve as a lead on full-stack software development projects, data ETL projects, and software feature development.
- Collaborate with management and technical team on technical roadmap and implementation strategy.
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
