Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company with the world’s only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere. For over 20 years, Iridium’s network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things. Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture and is committed to providing an exciting and innovative workplace where employees are challenged to think boldly and collaborate on new ideas and solutions.

What We’re Looking For

If you enjoy learning about and working with breakthrough technologies and are enthusiastic about the space industry, you will be excited about the Senior Software Engineer opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As the Senior Software Engineer, you will apply cutting edge technologies to rapidly develop and deploy user service capabilities within a satellite operations environment. You will identify and autonomously implement ideas and solutions within the larger development team to support cross-functional efforts across all areas of software development.

What You’ll Do

• Work independently to develop and enhance software to meet the requirements of the SDA project
• Develop optimized code for both scalability and performance
• Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for software development (Atlassian tool suite desired)
• Create or maintain build environments for software products
• Play a key role in planning and executing software releases per stakeholder/program schedules and budgets
• Update issue/feature data in Atlassian Project/Software tracking tools
• Follow existing Iridium processes for Change Control, Prioritization, Risk Management, COTS Management, Build and Test software deployments and use advanced knowledge to assist in developing process/procedure documentation
• Edit, structure and present data, concepts and arguments clearly and succinctly through briefings and documentation
• Respond to questions within scope from stakeholders, as appropriate

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, or other engineering discipline
• 8+ years software programming experience
• Coding experience on Agile based teams
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues to groups outside of your team or those who are unfamiliar with the topic
• Have confidence and be able to easily build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of your team
• Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions and come up with out-of-the-box solutions
• Be proactive in providing feedback and enthusiastic in sharing your knowledge with others
• Capable of prioritizing your own tasks and potentially the tasks of others while ensuring deadlines are met
• Proactivity in seeking out ways to continuously improve yourself and gain new knowledge, including the ability to learn the different software that make up the System Performance and Analysis software
• Ability to comprehend technical documentation
• Have a positive attitude to take on increasing software development tasks
• Passion for working in a team-driven environment with operators, software testers, senior developers, and system engineers

Nice to Have

• Experience with the following technologies:
• Kubernetes / Docker / Podman / ArgoCD
• CI/CD Pipelining (GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, Bitbucket)
• Linux-based environments and bash shell scripting
• Python / Java / C++ / TypeScript / Perl
• RESTful / / ELK or similar / WebSockets
• XML / JSON / SQL
• SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL based DBs (e.g., Mongo)
• js / Apache Web Server
• Security Vulnerability Analysis and Procedures (CVE, TLS)
• Atlassian management/software development tools: Jira / Git / Crucible / Confluence
• Microservices architectures
• Automated testing frameworks
• Gov and non-Gov AWS cloud environments

We’ll also need you to

• Be a U.S. Citizen
• Have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance

Work Environment

This position primarily works in an office setting and is largely sedentary with the majority of the position working with a computer. The role typically requires the use of basic office equipment such as a phone, video, computer, keyboard, mouse, and printer.

Iridium is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.