Sr Staff Software Engineer

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Westminster, CO

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

Maxar is seeking a talented Software Engineer with API development experience to join our 2D Streaming team within Maxar Geospatial Platform Core. You will be part of the 2D Streaming team responsible for developing, deploying, scaling and maintaining highly available and highly performant APIs for the Maxar Geospatial Platform. This engineer will contribute to a unified platform powering applications used by all of Maxar's customers (Commercial, USG, and International). In this role, you will have the freedom to design and engineer solutions to drive innovative, modern approaches to meet our user needs and customer requirements. A successful candidate will be a passionate developer that embraces modern software development and insists others do as well. You will introduce automation and evangelize new tools and processes within a collaborative team environment. You will assist our streaming team with scaling, monitoring, and optimizing our APIs. You will build solutions, resolve defects, conduct code reviews, and communicate statuses in daily stand-ups within an agile workflow. This position participates in an on-call rotation to ensure our APIs are available, accessible, and performant.

Responsibilities

• Develop back-end software for high-performance APIs within an Agile team environment
• Commit code to Git repository using CI/CD practices and perform Pull Request reviews
• Create unit tests and procedures to verify software functionality and collaborate with our QA team
• Help architect features and capabilities, as well as document the implementation
• Participate in daily stand-ups and sprint planning
• Participate in on-call rotation to minimize API downtime and provide immediate resolution

Requirements

• Must be a US citizen or permanent resident
• Must have a Bachelor's degree in a related field
• Minimum of 7-10 years of related experience
• Programming experience with Python and Java
• Experience developing REST API endpoints
• Experience with service-oriented and microservice architectures
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) and CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins)
• Exposure to database technologies and management principles
• Experience building cloud-native services (AWS, Google, Azure), including use of serverless computing technologies
• Experience with software lifecycles centered around right-sized mono-repos and their associated tooling that provides seamless integration testing and deployment

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Jenkins
• Experience with AWS ELK Stack or similar
• Familiarity with ArgoCD and Helm or similar
• Familiarity with query languages (SQL, PL/SQL) and databases (relational, NoSQL, and graph databases e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j)
• Experience with utilizing automated testing and linting (PyTest, Black, Flake8, Radon, iSort)
• Strong written communication
• Highly focused self-starter that likes solving problems
• Passion for learning and teaching new technical skills
• Experience with geospatial software and domain (ArcGIS, QGIS, GeoServer, CQL)
• Experience with raster data (imagery, basemaps, mosaics)
• Experience working on a geographically distributed team

Benefits

• Time for dedicated professional development
• Remote work
• Conference attendance
• Corporate partner and industry training
• Peer group collaboration
• Hackathons
• Paid certifications
• Education reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness
• Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k)