Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Orbital Sidekick is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work on their satellite imagery processing system, SIGMA. The role involves designing and coding services, collaborating with various teams, and requires experience in cloud computing, APIs, orchestration technologies, software architecture decision-making, and more.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience writing production code for cloud services
• Extensive knowledge of cloud computing, particularly AWS serverless technologies
• Experience with API technologies (e.g., REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, GraphQL)
• Experience with orchestration technologies (e.g., AWS Step Functions)
• Experience with software architecture decision-making on a team
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Effective collaboration skills to work with a remote team
• Experience with Python programming or an aptitude for adopting programming languages

Responsibilities

• Design and code services that process & catalog imagery, detect anomalies, store metrics, create reports, and deliver insights to customers
• Collaborate with the product team to determine feature priorities
• Collaborate with the satellite payload and analytics teams to implement new or improved image processing operations

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of imaging principles
• Knowledge of remote sensing analytics, earth sciences and/or geography
• Knowledge of satellite mission operations
• Experience with machine learning
• Experience with AWS CDK or CloudFormation
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization systems

Benefits

• Salary range: $120,000 - $190,000 a year (California, Washington & New York City), $115,000-$185,000 (Colorado)
• Orbital Sidekick is an equal opportunity employer