Senior Software Engineer

5 days ago

Herndon, Virginia, United States Blacksky Holdings LLC Full time
Job Summary

BlackSky Holdings LLC is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, with a focus on image processing and machine learning. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, collaborating with a talented team to design and implement innovative solutions.

Responsibilities
  • Design and implement image processing pipelines and software services to assist researchers developing computer vision solutions for next-generation satellite imagery analytics.
  • Ensure high-quality and production-ready Python or GO code.
  • Take part in the entire project lifecycle from requirements development to deployment.
  • Serve as a lead on MLOps software development projects, data ETL projects, and software feature development.
  • Collaborate with management and technical team on technical roadmap and implementation strategy.

Requirements
  • Minimum of eight years of hands-on experience as a software engineer with at least three years focused on geospatial imagery.
  • Bachelor's/Master's Degree or higher in one of the following fields: computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, or another computational field.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and building scalable production software solutions and architectures, especially for machine learning or image processing.
  • Strong Python3 proficiency or GO proficiency and experience writing production software for data ETL, REST APIs, micro-services, geospatial, or data analytics, and cloud deployment.
  • Experience with databases, SQL queries, and data model design especially SQL such as PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
  • Experience writing software to integrate with third-party APIs, performing data ETL, and managing complex data at scale in relational data stores.
  • Strong ability to communicate concepts and software system results with customers, management, and the technical team, highlighting actionable insights.
  • Hands on experience with cloud services such as AWS EKS, S3, EC2, Aurora/RDS, SQS, SNS, Batch, etc.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Over ten years of hands-on experience as a software engineer.
  • Knowledge and experience with MLOps and DataOps as a practice.
  • Experience with distributed compute environments such as Kubernetes and Dask.
  • Hands on experience working with large imagery datasets including image normalization, image augmentation, raster/vector visualization, etc.
  • Experience managing machine learning data labels or with 3rd party platforms such as LabelBox, SuperAnnotate, ScaleAI, etc.
  • Experience working with geospatial and image software stacks (GDAL, Rasterio, GeoPandas, Shapely, Xarray, Zarr, etc.).
  • Experience with remote sensing datasets and image preprocessing and manipulation methods for sensors such as Sentinel, LandSat, BlackSky, Airbus, Planet, or WorldView.
  • Hands on experience with cloud services such as AWS EKS, S3, EC2, Aurora/RDS, SQS, SNS, Batch, etc.

Benefits
  • 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 development.
  • Mac or PC? Your choice.
  • Awesome swag.

Salary Range
$160,000-$180,000 per year. The final compensation package offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on specific background and education. BlackSky is a multi-state employer, and this pay scale may not reflect salary ranges in other states or locations outside of Seattle, WA.

BlackSky is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

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