Senior Ground Software Engineer
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Summary
About the Role
About You
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience in relevant discipline.
- 5-8+ years of professional experience developing highly available web services with server-side scripting languages, preferably Python.
- Experience developing Kubernetes/Docker containerized services.
- Solid understanding of cloud and application security, access control, and identity management.
- Professional experience developing automated build and test pipelines in a CI/CD lifecycle.
- Strong interpersonal ability, able to interact effectively with customers and Umbra staff.
- Strong leadership ability, proven to drive technical concepts from formulation to implementation.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
- 10+ years of professional experience developing highly available web services with server-side scripting languages, preferably Python.
- Relevant technical experience in developing enterprise satellite ground architecture.
- Experience building software to automate space operations with modern software engineering practices.
- Experience working with U.S. Government DoD, IC and Civil customers.
- Experience with US Government information assurance and IT accreditation processes and procedures.
- Experience with SAR, RF, or other remote sensing missions areas.
- Experience with database-backed applications and relational database concepts, preferably Postgres.
- Experience with product-centric engineering.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure monitoring principles, best practices, and implementation.
- Experience designing and documenting commercial APIs with Swagger/OpenAPI.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance, read-in within the past two years.
Benefits
- Flexible Time Off, Sick, Family & Medical Leave
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, LTD, STD (employer funded)
- Vol Life, Critical Illness, Accidental, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance (employee funded)
- 401k with 3% non-elective company contribution
- Stock Options
- Free parking in the building
- Free lunch in office daily
Umbra builds next-generation space systems that observe the Earth in unprecedented fidelity. Our vision is to advance global insight through high quality, all weather commercial remote sensing and intelligence gathering. Our goal is to become an indispensable tool for the exploding number of organizations now actively monitoring the Earth, making data-driven decisions about land use, and fighting the effects of climate change. Umbra delivers on this mission by implementing first principles to develop hardware, software and services which are unrivaled by the status quo. Umbra builds cutting-edge hardware and software products for our analytics customers which solve complex business and security challenges for the United States and its allies. Canopy is our direct tasking platform which allows our customers to use a robust network of sensors to trigger space assets and autonomously deliver data for their analytics needs. Umbra’s team is comprised of space and business veterans from across industry and government. Umbra is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, and has a presence in Austin, and Washington, D.C. ALL SOCIAL IMAGERY AVAILABLE IN THE UMBRA OPEN DATA PROGRAM.