3 months ago
Remote, United States or Seattle, WA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$150k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain software components for mission management services.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and team planning.
- Test, debug, and document software functionality.
- Identify and communicate unclear, inconsistent, or technically limited requirements.
- Coordinate with mission planning, ground software, and platform engineers on autonomous constellation operations products.
- Support production stability, live-system troubleshooting, on-call rotations, and ongoing constellation operations.
- Support launch and early operations of new satellites.
- Develop and track requirements, schedules, and technical implementation through on-orbit operation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree or higher in computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, or another computational field, or equivalent experience.
- At least eight years of relevant software development experience.
- Fluency in Python and strong understanding of Go, with the ability to use other languages when necessary.
- Expertise in software design, maintenance, implementation, data structures, data retrieval and storage, algorithm efficiency, and maintainable scalable code.
- Demonstrated initiative in identifying and solving problems or inefficiencies.
- Strong collaboration, organization, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage several concurrent, independent activities.
- U.S. citizenship may be required for some supported programs.
- Preferred: familiarity with orbital mechanics, attitude dynamics, satellite systems, software and hardware performance characteristics, complex-system automation, and geospatial systems or data.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life, AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- Employer-paid employee-only medical, dental, and vision premiums with a monthly out-of-pocket contribution
- 15 days of PTO, 11 company holidays, four floating holidays, paid volunteerism leave, and parental leave
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
- Employer matching donations
- Professional development opportunities
- Choice of Mac or PC
- Company swag
- Seattle, WA location preferred; remote candidates in certain states may be considered
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).