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As a Software Development Engineer on the Leo Ground Systems Engineering team, you will design, develop, deploy, and support software to maintain a globally deployed fleet of ground terminals. You will build and scale data pipelines for condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, and automated remediation while developing automation for the integration, test, calibration, and release of ground systems software. This role involves managing the full software development lifecycle for critical infrastructure including satellite Gateway and Telemetry, Tracking, and Command terminals. The work focuses on ensuring high reliability and uptime for distributed systems that form the communications backbone for a low Earth orbit satellite constellation. Required skills include professional experience in software design, architecture, and programming. Preferred qualifications include expertise with Python, AWS services like DynamoDB, data lakes, and troubleshooting complex hardware and software interactions.
What does a Software Development Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $169050 from 111 postings across 5 companies.
Design, develop, and deploy software to maintain the health and availability of a global fleet of ground terminals.
Build and scale data pipelines for condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, and automated remediation.
Develop automation for the integration, testing, calibration, and release of ground systems software.
Manage the full software development lifecycle including design, testing, deployment, and operational support.
Optimize systems critical to the uptime and performance of satellite Gateway and Telemetry, Tracking, and Command terminals.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues within distributed hardware and software systems.
What we're looking for
Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, or granted asylum/refugee status for export control compliance.
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience focusing on patterns, reliability, and scaling.
Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience including coding standards, reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations (preferred).
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
Experience with distributed systems and a mix of hardware/software troubleshooting (preferred).
Experience building data pipelines or services on AWS using Python (preferred).