
Senior Staff Software Systems Engineer
Maxar Technologies2 hours ago
Westminster, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$128k - $187k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical authority for a product or major product evolution.
- Define system architecture and technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
- Partner with Product Management to validate customer needs and align capabilities with customer problems.
- Lead architecture reviews, trade studies, and major technical decisions.
- Drive system decomposition, interface definition, integration planning, and release sequencing.
- Manage architectural, integration, schedule, and operational risks across the product lifecycle.
- Resolve cross-team technical conflicts and establish engineering practices that improve consistency, quality, and delivery.
- Guide products through concept, integration, validation, operational readiness, and customer deployment.
- Mentor senior engineers and develop technical leadership across the organization.
- Apply AI-assisted development approaches to accelerate architecture and systems analysis and improve requirements validation and decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Significant experience designing and delivering complex software-intensive systems.
- Experience serving as a technical lead across multiple engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of modern software architecture and distributed systems.
- Experience leading architecture reviews and technical trade studies.
- Experience managing system integration and cross-team technical dependencies.
- Demonstrated ability to resolve complex technical issues spanning multiple organizations.
- Excellent communication skills with engineers, product managers, customers, and senior leadership.
- Preferred experience includes cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, event-driven and distributed architectures, AI-assisted software development workflows, systems-of-systems engineering, high-availability or mission-critical software, platform engineering, operational readiness, production deployment, and model-based or digital systems engineering.
- Must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package with a 401(k) and company match.
- Mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- Position is incentive eligible, with the target determined by contribution, company performance, and/or individual results.
- The application window is three days from the posting date and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.
- The role is subject to U.S. export control laws and requires U.S. person status for applicable positions.