The Orbital Sidekick (OSK) software engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us build SIGMA, our system for processing satellite imagery and delivering results to customers. In this role you will design and code services that process & catalog imagery, detect anomalies, store metrics, create reports, and deliver insights to customers. The software engineering team needs a generalist back end software engineer who is able to dive deep throughout our system, understands cloud architecture and is comfortable justifying technical decisions to the broader team.
Space is in our DNA. OSK has a mission to leverage the untapped power of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to address global environmental, health, and safety needs while helping companies reach their sustainability goals. OSK owns and operates a constellation of satellites with hyperspectral sensors. With those sensors, OSK can "see" methane plumes, liquid hydrocarbon leaks, vegetation health, and a lot more.
What You'll Do
- Build APIs and services for creating and delivering insights
- Implement image & auxiliary data catalog services
- Collaborate with the product team to determine feature priorities
- Collaborate with the satellite payload and analytics teams to implement new or improved image processing operations
- Break down & plan features & services for incremental delivery
What You'll Need to Succeed
- 5+ years of experience writing production code for cloud services
- Extensive knowledge of cloud computing, particularly AWS serverless technologies
- Experience with API technologies (e.g., REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, GraphQL)
- Experience with orchestration technologies (e.g., AWS Step Functions)
- Experience with software architecture decision-making on a team
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Effective collaboration skills to work with a remote team
- Experience with Python programming or an aptitude for adopting programming languages
Experience That Will Give You an Advantage
- Knowledge of imaging principles
- Knowledge of remote sensing analytics, earth sciences and/or geography
- Knowledge of satellite mission operations
- Experience with machine learning
- Experience with AWS CDK or CloudFormation
- Experience implementing authentication and authorization systems
Orbital Sidekick is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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What We Do
Orbital Sidekick’s vision is to lead the Energy Transition by building the most robust remote sensing and analytics capability in existence. OSK’s proprietary analytics platform and hyperspectral payload architecture provide persistent space-based monitoring solutions powered by Spectral Intelligence. This unique radiometric speciation and change detection capability enables unparalleled target monitoring services for both commercial and defense users on a global scale.
OSK recently launched the most advanced commercial hyperspectral satellite in existence: Aurora. Aurora serves OSK’s customers in the energy, mining, and defense sectors, including expanding contracts and pilot program opportunities for oil and gas pipeline monitoring & methane mapping, clean energy resource exploration, sustainable mining practices, and wildfire risk mitigation.
OSK is currently building its GHOSt hyperspectral satellite constellation for deployment in 2022, providing daily target monitoring services to end-users.
