Senior Software Engineer, LeoLabs

• M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 6+ years experience with Python in a SaaS platform
• Experience designing, building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines
• Experience with architecting and scaling full stack or distributed backend systems
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with cloud deployment technologies, such as Kubernetes, Docker containers
• Experience with relational databases
• Deep understanding of good software development practices, agile practices, security, documentation and observability
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message queuing systems
• Ability to work on-call outside of normal business hours during critical escalations
• Experience in agile and test-driven development methodologies
• Able to hold a USA security clearance

Desirable

• LeoLabs is seeking a talented individual to join our Catalog team as a Senior Software Engineer
• The Catalog team's charter is to build and maintain the world’s best independent catalog of objects in low Earth orbit using sensor data from LeoLabs and our partners
• We deploy software to public cloud environments and other operational environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security across our infrastructure
• We also focus on optimizing our data pipeline across multiple areas, including radar scheduling, measurement association, orbit determination and propagation, and new object discovery
• As a part of our team, you will make significant contributions to both the developer experience and the customer experience for the LeoLabs Platform
• You will explore and incorporate new technologies to help scale the data pipeline, enabling it to support more radar sources and the growing number of objects in space
• Your work will directly contribute to improving space object tracking, space traffic management, and orbital safety—critical components in ensuring the sustainable use of LEO(low earth orbit)
• Within 1 month, you’ll:
• Complete LeoLabs' onboarding program and gain a deep understanding of our business, vision, and team
• Set up your local development environment and become familiar with our engineering stack
• Participate in your first sprint, contributing to small bug fixes or feature improvements
• Shadow a senior engineer and orbit support analyst to understand our data pipeline and system architecture
• Within 3 months, you’ll:
• Take ownership of a small-to-medium feature, from design to implementation
• Improve an aspect of our data pipeline performance (e.g., optimizing a query, reducing processing time for a specific job)
• Conduct your first production deployment, following our CI/CD process
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., Product, Infrastructure) to understand dependencies and align on priorities
• Provide feedback in code reviews and contribute to team discussions on technical design decisions
• Within 6 months, you’ll:
• Take a leadership role in a key technical initiative, such as scaling our data pipeline to support additional radars and newly launched objects
• Build internal dashboards to monitor data quality and system performance
• Lead an incident response or troubleshooting effort, demonstrating a deep understanding of our system
• Contribute to architectural decisions that enhance system scalability and reliability
• Within 12 months, you’ll:
• Be a domain expert in one or more areas of the system
• Drive a major technical improvement, such as re-architecting a part of our pipeline for better scalability
• Establish best practices and guidelines for software development, security, and system observability
• Present a technical deep dive or post-mortem to the broader engineering team
• Lead cross-team collaborations to improve system interoperability and efficiency
• Have helped shape the software engineering culture at Leolabs