Senior Technical Architect
Slingshot AerospaceBase Salary
$175k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement Python-based ETL frameworks, orchestration layers, and high-throughput data pipelines.
- Design and optimize real-time event-driven streaming systems using Kafka and/or RabbitMQ.
- Build and scale FastAPI-based microservices with emphasis on performance, security, and observability.
- Lead MongoDB data modeling, indexing, aggregation, sharding, replication, and performance tuning.
- Architect caching, session-management, and high-speed data-access layers using Redis or similar in-memory databases.
- Apply Secure SDLC practices across architecture, coding, CI/CD, and deployment workflows.
- Lead architecture reviews and define engineering standards for distributed systems.
- Diagnose and resolve complex system, data, and performance issues in production.
- Drive containerization, Kubernetes-native deployment patterns, and AWS cloud integration.
Requirements
- Expert-level Python experience across ETL systems, microservices, and distributed data processing.
- Strong FastAPI design and implementation experience.
- Deep production-level experience with Kafka and/or RabbitMQ.
- Mandatory production expertise with MongoDB, including schema design, indexing, aggregation, sharding, and replication.
- Experience with at least one memory-based database, with Redis strongly preferred.
- Strong Linux proficiency and experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Ability to debug complex distributed or high-scale systems.
- Experience implementing agentic AI workflows with LangChain and Crew AI.
- Hands-on AWS experience across compute, data, networking, and security services.
- Proven application of Secure SDLC principles and secure architecture patterns.
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- Space-industry data familiarity is a plus.
Benefits
- On-site role in the Washington, DC–Baltimore area
- Equity and benefits are offered
- Hiring is currently limited to specified U.S. states and the United Kingdom
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About Slingshot Aerospace
Slingshot Aerospace is the leader in Space Operations Intelligence & Autonomy (SOIA), delivering AI-powered solutions that help government and commercial partners track, interpret, and act on activity in space. By combining proprietary sensor data, advanced astrodynamics, artificial intelligence, and data fusion, Slingshot powers mission-ready space operations across defense, civil, and commercial sectors. The company integrates data from the Slingshot Global Sensor Network, the Slingshot Seradata satellite and launch history database, satellite owner-operators, and other third-party sources to provide a dynamic operational picture of the space domain for training, planning, and live mission execution. Slingshot is driven by its mission to make space safe and secure. Founded in 2017, the company has offices in Colorado, Texas, Canada, Taiwan, and the UK.