Senior Software Engineer, Platform Analytics
About Us:
BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets, and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.
As a Senior Software Engineer on our Platform Analytics team, you'll be joining a small group of industry veterans who are passionate about writing quality software that solves real customer needs. Our development team comes from many development backgrounds (from game engines cloud computing, remote sensing and AI/ML) and has experience across the entire stack. You will work closely with the team and internal customers to design, integrate, launch, and improve our latest machine learning/computer vision algorithms and pipelines, which are used in a variety of detection and monitoring geospatial applications.
While the locations listed in the job posting are ideal, we would love candidates near either our Herndon, VA or Seattle, WA offices. We will also consider remote candidates in certain states.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop, and document external and internal data services to implement scalable solutions for low latency processing with a focus on usability, consistency, and stability.
Collaborate with various teams including but not limited to platform, data science, and image processing, to help design interfaces and implementations for analytics-related services core to the business.
Help maintain platform analytics production services.
Provide insightful feedback during design sessions and code reviews.
Other job-related duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
Experience developing production software for at least five years.
Strong software engineering skills which produce clean, well-documented, tested, and scalable solutions.
Proficiency designing, implementing, and using REST APIs.
Fluency in Python and are comfortable diving into other languages when necessary.
Familiarity with common database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
Experience managing data and services in a cloud environment like AWS (preferred), GCP, or MS Azure.
Must be a US born citizen.
Preferred Qualifications:
Familiarity with machine learning and/or data pipelines.
Experience working with data ingestion, storage, and analysis tools such as Elasticsearch, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.
Experience with geospatial systems.
Experience with GPU accelerated computing in Python.
Experience with Kubernetes.
Experience with Java and Go.
Life at BlackSky for full-time benefits eligible employees includes:
Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
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 develop
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