Staff Software Engineer, IR Data Products
Muon Space20 hours ago
Base Salary
$216k - $239k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own architecture for multi-mission IR data systems spanning ingest, preprocessing, orchestration, storage, cataloging, delivery, and execution platforms.
- Lead critical capabilities from problem framing and design through implementation, rollout, adoption, and operational hand-off.
- Drive low-latency processing architecture, including event-driven services, cloud infrastructure optimization, and algorithmic optimization.
- Set direction for geospatial data storage, cataloging, serving, tiling, STAC catalogs, IAM topology, reprocessing, and versioning.
- Build MLOps foundations including model packaging and versioning, experiment tracking, GPU-backed training and inference, A/B evaluation, and reproducibility.
- Set standards for code organization, release engineering, testing, documentation, code review, observability, and operational excellence.
- Coordinate with Product, Program Management, Business Development, Software, science, and flight-software teams and translate ambiguous requirements into engineering plans.
- Mentor engineers and raise team standards for failure modes, immutability, idempotency, reprocessing, and operational readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years, MS with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Demonstrated technical leadership on production data platforms at scale, including successful designs and rollouts.
- Experience designing and operating production data pipelines on AWS with a modern workflow orchestrator such as Flyte, Airflow, Prefect, Argo, or equivalent.
- Track record leading multi-quarter architectural initiatives across multiple services or teams.
- Experience with latency optimization, benchmarking, instrumentation, right-sizing, fan-out, caching, and asynchronous I/O.
- Strong operational experience with observability, SLOs, on-call, safe deployments, hotfix protocols, immutability, and reproducibility.
- Excellent technical writing and cross-functional communication skills.
- Preferred experience with event-driven or microservices architectures, queues, event routing, backpressure, retries, dead-letter queues, and service contracts.
- Preferred familiarity with Union.ai or Flyte v2, Terraform, AWS IAM boundaries, geospatial or remote-sensing systems, geospatial storage formats, tile stores, and STAC.
- Preferred hands-on MLOps experience with model packaging, experiment tracking, GPU-backed training and inference, feature stores, and A/B harnesses.
- Preferred experience with GPU acceleration using JAX, CuPy, or CUDA; satellite ground-segment systems; imagery or tiled geospatial data delivery; and latency SLOs and benchmarking discipline.
Benefits
- The role is hybrid and requires working onsite in the Denver, Colorado office three days per week.
- Full-time employees receive equity compensation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Benefits include three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
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About Muon Space
Muon Space designs, builds, and operates low Earth orbit satellite constellations and a software stack that deliver Earth intelligence and in-orbit compute for government, defense, and commercial users. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the privately held company sells spacecraft, payload integration, and data services. It runs a San Jose production facility capable of building up to 500 satellites in the 100–500+ kg class annually and has acquired propulsion startup Starlight Engines.