Software Development Engineer

Responsibilities

• Scale and optimize planning and simulation methods that convert satellite geometry and demand into capacity and coverage plans.
• Improve computational performance and scale using decomposition, precomputation, caching, and parallelism backed by measured results.
• Build and operate large-scale data stores, columnar query systems, and batch fan-out compute infrastructure for planning workloads.
• Validate system outputs against reference implementations and protect the accuracy of business-critical results.
• Partner with network modeling and real-time operations teams to transition planning methods from demonstrations to production.
• Contribute to backend services and data pipelines for capacity, demand, pricing, inventory, and reservations.
• Build highly available, scalable AWS services and provide monitoring, alarming, and on-call operational ownership.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent is preferred.
• Experience collaborating effectively with science, data processing, and software engineering teams is preferred.
• Experience improving the performance and scale of computationally intensive systems or algorithms is preferred.
• Exposure to optimization, simulation, large-scale numerical processing, or geospatial data processing, or interest in developing depth in those areas, is preferred.
• Due to export control requirements, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, lawfully admitted refugee, or person granted asylum.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
• Employee assistance program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the compensation package.
• Work location is Bellevue, Washington, USA.