BlackSky is a leading provider of real-time geospatial intelligence.
Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack
Location
Virginia
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
$150K - $175K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack
BlackSky
• 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.
Job 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 one of the following fields: 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.
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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