Lead Software Engineer
Leads the Cloud team developing booking, orchestration, APIs, billing, monitoring, and data-delivery systems for a global antenna network. The role requires substantial software development and cloud-services experience, technical leadership, and expertise in distributed systems.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead the Cloud team by setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, driving execution, and owning delivery of cloud services end to end.
- Design and develop a cloud-based booking and reservation system for global antenna network access.
- Build and maintain customer-facing APIs and portals for scheduling, booking, and automated network rerouting.
- Implement workflows that provide strong customer guarantees and optimize use of deployed sites.
- Own the orchestration layer coordinating antenna operations across the global network, including interfaces and contracts between cloud services and on-site ground systems.
- Design and operate the control plane, data plane, and telemetry delivery path across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Develop billing and metering systems that track resource usage and generate invoices.
- Design and implement monitoring to ensure continuous platform uptime.
- Collaborate with Ground and Data teams, site operations, and network operations to build a resilient global network.
- Work with customers to define secure, scalable interfaces for Telemetry, Tracking, and Control (TT&C) and payload data transfer.
Basic Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional software development experience.
- 3+ years building and scaling cloud-based services and APIs in production environments.
- Experience leading engineering teams or projects as a tech lead, mentoring engineers, and driving technical direction.
- Experience with distributed scheduling systems, resource allocation, or booking platforms.
- Proficiency with modern cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Rust, Golang, Haskell, or other languages suitable for cloud services and distributed systems.
- Experience building global-scale customer-facing platforms with high reliability requirements.
- Experience defining service boundaries and interfaces across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
- Knowledge of API design, authentication, and access-control best practices.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues.
- Experience with high-throughput data delivery, streaming pipelines, or telemetry systems.
- Familiarity with billing systems, usage tracking, or subscription management.
- Understanding of simulation and modeling, such as satellite propagation.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of satellite communications or related domain experience.
Compensation and Benefits
- Employment is subject to applicable U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including ITAR eligibility requirements.
Skills
AWS, Azure, GCP, Rust, Go, Haskell, Kubernetes, Containerization, CI/CD, Distributed Systems, API Design, Message Queues, Streaming Pipelines, Telemetry Systems, Billing Systems
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