DevOps Engineer (Flight Software) - Intern (Spring 2025)

Internships at Astranis typically last for twelve weeks, and are hourly roles designed for students who are currently enrolled at a four-year university.

As a DevOps Intern, you will work with our Flight Software and other related teams to operate, scale, and automate operations for our embedded software and platform development. These include command & control systems, telemetry databases, continuous integration systems, flight code build systems, and other software systems critical to our mission. This internship offers a unique opportunity to contribute to key projects and gain hands-on experience in the aerospace industry. You will write code that will be flying in space!

You will assist in improving the state of operations for key software systems at Astranis, focusing on reliability and maintainability as we expand to a fleet of satellites and their supporting services. This role will contribute to both commercial and US Government programs.

If you have already graduated from a four-year university, please apply to be an Associate Engineer.

Role:

• Assist in developing software tools to gain insights into mission-critical software performance and correctness.
• Contribute towards python version migration for a large repository
• Create tooling to automate python package generation and upload to a private repository.
• Support the automation of release, deployment, and monitoring tooling for development and production systems.
• Aid in the implementation and management of metrics and performance tracking in development, CI, production, and mission contexts.

Requirements:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in a related discipline (e.g., Information Technology, Computer Science)
• Relevant Experience or coursework with Python
• Familiarity with git and/or github
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Highly motivated, self-starting, and able to perform duties autonomously with guidance from senior engineers

Bonus:

• Experience with Bazel build system
• Experience with Python package generation
• Familiarity with code coverage reporting
• Exposure to static analysis tools