Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure

As a Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure, you will be one of the first hires to drive our DevOps and Infrastructure architecture and help us scale from one satellite to commanding a fleet of satellites. You will partner with our Flight Software and broader Software engineering organization to operate, scale, and automate operations for our embedded software and platform development. This includes command & control systems, telemetry databases, continuous integration systems, flight code build systems, and other software systems critical to our mission and both commercial and US Government programs.

You will improve the state of operations for key software systems at Astranis, with respect to reliability, maintainability as we expand to a fleet of satellites and their supporting services.

Role

• Develop software tools to gain insights into mission-critical software performance and correctness.
• Maintain and streamline a CI pipeline integrating with a mix of real and simulated hardware.
• Automate release, deployment, and monitoring tooling for development and production systems.
• Lead initiatives that improve the speed and accuracy of software teams in developing space-worthy software.
• Implement and own the proliferation of metrics and performance tracking in development, CI, production, and mission contexts.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in Infrastructure and DevOps engineering
• Bachelor of Science in a related discipline (e.g. Information Technology, Computer Science)
• Strong systems programming knowledge in languages such as C or C++
• Experience with Python
• Experience with scaling build systems such as, but not limited to: Bazel, CMake, or Pants
• Experience with Git
• Experience developing a CI pipeline for software targeting in-house designed hardware
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Highly motivated, self-starting, and able to perform duties autonomously without much supervision

Bonus

• Experience with Linux build systems such as Yocto
• Experience with code coverage reporting
• Experience with static analysis tools