Command and Telemetry Tools Engineer

at  Maxar Technologies

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Maxar Intelligence is a provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand and navigate our changing planet. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale and cost effectiveness.
Maxar Intelligence is currently seeking a Lead Software Engineer for the Command and Telemetry Tooling team. This role is located in the Westminster, CO office and involves designing, developing and maintaining RESTful microservices used to build, test and deploy satellite command and telemetry throughout the satellite product development cycle.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field. Four additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree
• 5+ years of engineering experience (Masters degree may count towards 2 years of experience)
• Proficiency in Python and/or Typescript
• Familiarity with AWS services, such as RDS, S3, ECR, API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions
• Understanding of build systems and toolchains
• Experience with designing, building, and running distributed systems
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Infrastructure as code, AWS cloud platform
• Database performance design experience
• Familiarity with distributed version control systems such as Git
• Construction and maintenance of a CI/CD pipeline such as Gitlab
• UI/UX development, including AG Grid
• Linux or other Unix-based OS
• Experience with container technologies (preferably experience with Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

WHAT YOU WILL DO DAY TO DAY:

Maxar’s constellation of low-earth orbit (LEO) earth observation satellites are renowned across the industry for their ability to capture imagery that both inspires and informs our understanding of our living planet. We have invested heavily in modernizing and unifying our software development tool set used manage the command and telemetry data used to communicate with our satellites. Where other space vendors often manage this data with spreadsheets, we are managing it with a set of purpose-built, cloud deployed micro services.
This role operates at the intersection of exciting aerospace opportunities with cutting-edge software development practices and tools. If you are someone who is experienced in the later, and want to be involved in the former, this is the role for you.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• API design, documentation, and governance
• Build and maintain reliable, scalable and fault-tolerant applications and services
• Create and maintain relational and non-relational database systems
• Contribute and maintain technical documentation
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code that follows software development best practices
• Conduct code reviews and provide feedback to other engineers