Senior Software Engineer, Government Programs
Muon Space16 hours ago
Base Salary
$192k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, and maintain production data pipelines that process and deliver infrared mission data to government programs.
- Own software integration between Muon's data platform and US Government, NRO, and Intelligence Community architectures.
- Deploy infrastructure into classified environments while meeting security, compliance, and accreditation requirements.
- Own NITF formatting, metadata design, validation, customer iteration, and integration of vendor NITF tooling.
- Write production-ready code for data processing and delivery pipelines.
- Translate government customer needs into technical requirements and software designs in collaboration with BD and program stakeholders.
- Coordinate with software, data platform, systems engineering, instrument engineering, operations, and program management teams.
- Ensure the quality, quantitative validation, and integrity of government-facing data products and services.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience or master's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience.
- 5+ years building production software systems, including data or geospatial pipelines.
- Knowledge of US Government software architectures, particularly NRO and broader Intelligence Community systems.
- Experience integrating data delivery systems into customer systems, preferably US Government systems.
- Experience building and operating high-volume data processing pipelines in commercial or government cloud infrastructure.
- Exceptional Python development skills and comfort with adjacent languages and tools used in government software stacks.
- Active US security clearance; TS/SCI is strongly preferred.
- Preferred experience includes classified-environment deployment, NRO systems, imagery or geospatial data delivery, NITF formatting, GDAL/OGR, rasterio, PROJ, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF, cross-domain solutions, large geospatial datasets, government customers, ATO/RMF processes, and DevSecOps in classified environments.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive equity compensation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
- Benefits include three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
- Muon is registered and able to hire in AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IA, ID, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VT, VA, and WA.
- The position requires access to export-controlled information and applicants must satisfy the stated US person, authorization, or export-license eligibility requirements.
About Muon Space
Muon Space designs, builds, and operates low Earth orbit satellite constellations and a software stack that deliver Earth intelligence and in-orbit compute for government, defense, and commercial users. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the privately held company sells spacecraft, payload integration, and data services. It runs a San Jose production facility capable of building up to 500 satellites in the 100–500+ kg class annually and has acquired propulsion startup Starlight Engines.