Senior Software Systems Engineer
Space Dynamics Laboratory2 days ago
North Logan, UT, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$143k - $178k/yr
Responsibilities
- Maintain a reliable, system-wide understanding of software environments and component interactions.
- Lead customer discussions, clarify expectations, and explain system capabilities, limitations, and configuration options.
- Translate customer objectives into technical priorities aligned with system capabilities and mission needs.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, gaps, and potential program issues.
- Coordinate technical execution across software, infrastructure, operations, vendors, and customer organizations.
- Investigate technical issues and participate in implementation or troubleshooting when needed.
- Guide technical decisions and teams while balancing hands-on problem-solving with broader system-level leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, management information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related technical field, with increasing responsibility.
- Broad technical understanding of complex software systems and supporting infrastructure, including applications, operating systems, virtualization, containers, and services.
- Working knowledge of Linux environments, particularly RHEL, and familiarity with enterprise virtualization or container platforms.
- Experience guiding technical execution and coordinating across software, infrastructure, and operations teams.
- Strong customer-facing communication skills and experience leading technical meetings and advising technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance with DoW and required program access approvals.
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% as required by the program.
- Preferred experience with VMware, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, containerized applications, system administration, platform operations, or infrastructure troubleshooting.
- Preferred familiarity with application architecture and development in Python, Java, C++, or other programming languages.
- Preferred understanding of system architecture, requirements management, integration, verification and validation, networking, cybersecurity, and DoW mission operations environments.
- Preferred experience with CI/CD, automated deployments, infrastructure as code, configuration management, gRPC, Kafka, or ZeroMQ.
- Preferred familiarity with Agile development and tools such as Git, Jira, and Confluence; active security clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
- Expected application window of approximately 7 days, subject to business needs and candidate availability.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% is required.
- The role requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
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About Space Dynamics Laboratory
Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) is a nonprofit, university‑affiliated research center at Utah State University that designs and builds electro‑optical sensors, small satellites, ground systems, and data‑exploitation software for national security space programs. It delivers contracted R&D, prototyping, and mission support to the U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community across full mission lifecycles. Founded in 1959 and headquartered in North Logan, Utah, SDL operates as a UARC.