Simera Sense is a leading provider of Earth observation camera solutions for the global small satellite market. Committed to excellence and innovation, we deliver superior products and services to our worldwide customer base.
Are you passionate about cloud technologies and building scalable, high-performance software solutions? We are seeking a Cloud Systems Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize cloud-native applications and infrastructure that power advanced products and services. If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, working across software and cloud environments, and driving innovation through modern technologies, we'd love to hear from you.
Position Type: Fulltime
Remote Opportunity: Hybrid
Report To: Group Software Manager
Location: Glasgow/Edinburgh, UK
Job Purpose:
Design, develop, secure, test, and operate scalable cloud-based software systems that integrate with IoT and edge devices, ensuring reliable communication, effective data management, resilience in distributed systems, and compliance with defined system requirements.
Responsibilities:
Cloud & IoT Systems
- Build cloud-based services that integrate with IoT and edge devices
- Design device-to-cloud communication flows and asynchronous workflows
- Balance edge vs cloud responsibilities for reliability and efficiency
- Operate and monitor systems in production environments
- Reason about durability, performance, and scalability
Databases & Data Management
- Design data models and persistence layers
- Work with relational and/or NoSQL databases
- Optimize queries, storage layouts, and access patterns
Concurrency & Distributed Systems
- Design and implement concurrent and parallel software
- Reason about synchronization, race conditions, deadlocks, and consistency
- Build distributed components that tolerate partial failure and latency
- Apply formal reasoning to state machines and protocol design
- Design systems to perform task orchestration and prioritization
Networking & Communication
- Develop software that communicates over unreliable or high-latency networks
- Design and implement robust communication protocols and data pipelines
- Work with network stacks, sockets, and message-based systems
- Apply networking fundamentals to system design and troubleshooting
- System and Communication Security
- Design and implement secure communication protocols
- Design for industry-standard data security (in transit and at rest)
- Design secure cloud architecture
Testing and Qualification
- Perform component testing
- Perform system testing
- Perform system qualification against requirements
- Produce test documentation
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or a closely related field
- AWS Certifications such as Developer Associate, Solutions Architect Associate or Solutions Architect Professional.
Minimum years of work experience:
- 0-2 years of relevant experience.
Required Experience:
- Strong foundation in computer science, including:
o Algorithms and data structures
o Automata and formal models of computation
o Computational complexity and trade-offs
o Concurrency and parallelism
o Communication networks
- Proficiency designing and implementing architecture on Cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Proficiency with distributed systems and message-based architecture
- Proficiency in IaC technologies (e.g. Terraform, Terragrunt)
- Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language (e.g. Go, Rust)
- Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab / GitHub pipelines)
- Familiarity with containers and orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with writing clear documentation
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals
- Experience modelling software with automata
- Experience working with databases and persistent storage
- Experience in application development.
- Experience developing software on Linux.
Recommendations:
- A master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related field would be advantageous.
- Experience with multithread and concurrent programming.
- Experience building or operating IoT systems
- Exposure to formal specifications, verifications, or protocol design
- Degree in Computer Science or a closely related field. Masters preferred.
- AWS Security Specialty Certification
- Interest in correctness, safety, and formal reasoning
- Experience with Post Quantum Cryptography
What we offer:
- The opportunity to work in the fast-growing space industry.
- Niche global market for optical payloads for microsatellites.
- Cutting-edge technology at your fingertips
- A competitive salary
- A friendly working environment.
Ready to make an impact?
- Apply now by submitting your CV.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree or postgraduate diploma in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or a closely related field
- AWS certification such as Developer Associate, Solutions Architect Associate, or Solutions Architect Professional
- 0–2 years of relevant work experience
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, automata, computational complexity, concurrency, parallelism, and communication networks
- Experience designing and implementing architecture on cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with distributed systems and message-based architecture
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform or Terragrunt
- Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language such as Go or Rust
- Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or GitHub pipelines
- Familiarity with containers and orchestration such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals
- Experience working with databases and persistent storage
- Experience developing software on Linux
- Experience modelling software with automata
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related field
- Experience with multithreaded and concurrent programming
- Experience building or operating IoT systems
- Exposure to formal specifications, verification, or protocol design
- AWS Security Specialty Certification
- Experience with post-quantum cryptography
What We Do
Simera Sense designs and manufactures end-to-end optical payloads, satellite imaging cameras, imager electronics, and image-processing solutions for CubeSats, nanosatellites, and other small satellites. The Belgium-headquartered company aims to make space-based Earth observation more accessible and affordable, supporting customers worldwide across the imaging pipeline from payload development through actionable, analysis-ready data for commercial and institutional missions requiring medium- to high-resolution imagery.
