1 day ago
Remote, United States +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$155k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain software enabling autonomous satellite operations and real-time tasking.
- Develop and integrate services interfacing with ground-station infrastructure and satellite communication protocols.
- Build software supporting satellite tasking, telemetry, monitoring, and health management.
- Collaborate with operations, communications engineers, flight software engineers, mission planning engineers, and other software teams to refine technical requirements.
- Write maintainable code emphasizing safety, test coverage, reliability, and testability.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and team planning.
- Support on-call rotations and troubleshoot live system operations as needed.
- Travel approximately 10–15% to support launch operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 10 years of professional software development experience.
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, or C++.
- Experience developing and deploying microservices in AWS, GCS, or Azure and on-premise Kubernetes environments.
- Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and modern version control systems such as Git.
- Strong problem-solving ability and understanding of complex systems end to end.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional teams.
- Experience with satellite operations, ground stations, or aerospace domains such as X-Band, UHF, or telemetry.
- Ability to support a program requiring U.S. citizenship.
- Preferred: master’s degree or higher in a related technical field.
- Preferred: more than 12 years of professional software development experience.
- Preferred: exposure to Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, or Nomad.
- Preferred: understanding of system safety, fault tolerance, recovery strategies, and high-availability mission-critical software.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life, AD&D, voluntary life, and voluntary AD&D insurance.
- BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only medical, dental, and vision premiums and contributes $100 per month toward out-of-pocket expenses.
- 15 days of PTO, 11 company holidays, four floating holidays, paid volunteerism leave, parental leave, and additional leave benefits.
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth options with employer match.
- Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Program, Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs, and employer matching donations.
- Professional development support and choice of Mac or PC.
- Remote work is possible, with preference for candidates near the Seattle, Washington office.
- The role requires approximately 10–15% travel for launch operations.
About BlackSky
BlackSky builds and operates a constellation of small Earth‑observation satellites and a real‑time geospatial intelligence platform that delivers imagery and automated analytics to government and commercial customers. It sells subscriptions and tasking services for near real‑time monitoring of strategic sites and events. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, BlackSky is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: BKSY).