Geospatial Platform Engineer
Maxar Technologies5 months ago
McLean, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$161k - $237k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and integrate backend services, APIs, data connectors, plugins, and platform components for geospatial, imagery, AI/ML, and analytic applications.
- Build data ingestion, enrichment, transformation, indexing, alerting, API, and analytic service components.
- Design, deploy, and maintain containerized architectures using Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, RKE2, or similar technologies.
- Create CI/CD pipelines, reusable deployment patterns, infrastructure automation, and DevSecOps workflows using Ansible, Terraform, Packer, or similar technologies.
- Support geospatial visualization, 3D terrain and model visualization, imagery access, and map-based analytic workflows using Cesium, OMAR, or similar technologies.
- Operationalize AI/ML models through model integration, inference services, deployment automation, monitoring, and production support.
- Troubleshoot issues across application code, Linux, containers, Kubernetes, pipelines, APIs, networking, data services, and AI/ML environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, data science, geospatial science, or a related field, with 8 years of experience; alternatively, 7 years with a master’s degree or 6 years with a doctorate.
- Active/current TS/SCI security clearance with required polygraph and U.S. citizenship.
- Willingness to work onsite full time.
- Strong production software development experience with languages such as Python, Java, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, and Bash.
- Experience supporting geospatial, imagery, AI/ML, data-driven, or analytic applications.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and containerized architectures in hybrid, on-premises, virtualized, or classified environments.
- Ability to work independently, research technical approaches, implement solutions with minimal guidance, document decisions, and collaborate across technical teams.
- Preferred experience includes geospatial analytics, imagery systems, mapping platforms, earth observation, full-motion video, EO/SAR, remote sensing, computer vision, image/video processing, and model inference workflows.
- Preferred experience includes Apache Airflow, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Elasticsearch, Trino/Presto, NVIDIA Triton, Rancher, RKE2, OpenShift, AWS, Azure, VMware vSphere, HashiCorp Vault, Artifactory, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, CIS benchmarks, STIGs, and ATO processes.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- The position requires full-time onsite work.
- The application window is three days from posting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache AirflowAWSAzureBashC++DockerElasticsearchGrafanaJavaJavaScriptKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPostgreSQLPrestoPrometheusPythonRancherSQLTerraformTypeScript
About Maxar Technologies
Maxar Technologies builds and operates commercial Earth‑observation satellites and sells high‑resolution imagery, 3D products, and geospatial analytics to government, defense, and enterprise customers. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, the company was formed in 2017 from the merger of DigitalGlobe and MDA and was acquired by Advent International in 2023; it supplies data for national security, mapping, and disaster response, and licenses imagery through subscription and platform APIs.