Array Labs is building a new way to understand the physical world.
Today, most geospatial systems are built around flat imagery, incomplete elevation models, slow refresh cycles, or narrow-area surveys. The world increasingly needs something better: accurate, frequently updated 3D information about the places, infrastructure, terrain, and activity that shape human decisions.
Array is building that system. We are developing a coordinated fleet of radar satellites designed to create high-resolution 3D data products of the Earth at unprecedented scale, speed, and reliability. Our technology is built to work across wide areas, through clouds, day and night, and to support both commercial and government customers operating in environments where timely physical-world understanding matters.
We design and build our satellites, radar payloads, sensing systems, and data products end-to-end. Our goal is to make 3D geospatial intelligence dramatically more accessible, useful, and operationally relevant for customers in mapping, infrastructure, disaster response, defense, intelligence, energy, telecommunications, mining, and other industries that depend on understanding the changing Earth.
About the Job
As Staff Software Engineer for data infrastructure, you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing the systems that process, analyze, and serve our satellite constellation’s data to end-users. You will have the opportunity to shape highly reliable backend infrastructure that handles petabytes of data annually. The position will work closely with frontend engineers, scientists, satellite systems engineers, and the product team.
As part of our quickly growing engineering team, you will play a critical role in the design of the world’s most advanced radar satellite constellation—one that will significantly improve humanity’s ability to rapidly and comprehensively understand our changing planet.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable distributed systems for processing and analyzing massive datasets from our satellite constellation.
- Develop and optimize database schemas and storage solutions for managing petabyte-scale 3D geospatial data.
- Architect and maintain high-performance APIs and services for efficient geospatial data streaming, querying, and analysis.
- Lead the design and implementation of mechanisms for handling data ingestion, processing, and delivery pipelines.
- Implement robust monitoring, logging, and operational systems to ensure reliability and performance of backend services.
- Work with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements, architect solutions, and drive the backend roadmap in alignment with company goals.
Basic Qualifications
- 6+ years of backend software engineering experience, including 4+ years building distributed systems and scalable APIs.
- Strong proficiency in backend languages (e.g., Python, C++, Java), experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform) and containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native development practices.
- Experience with high-performance computing and optimization of large-scale data processing pipelines.
- Excellent communicator, with the ability to make high-quality technical decisions in a startup environment.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Experience building geospatial databases, mapping technologies, and/or 3D visualizations, including relevant front-end techniques.
- Familiarity with geospatial concepts, remote sensing, 3D data, and/or digital signal processing techniques (e.g. SAR and optical satellite imagery, geospatial databases, LiDAR point clouds).
- Build What Matters: Create technology that serves customers and advances humanity
- Innovate Together: Stay curious, collaborate openly, push boundaries as one team
- Employee Centric: Put our people first with a culture of trust, respect, and opportunity
- Join industry-leading experts to deliver unprecedented insights about our planet and build the future of Earth observation.
Skills Required
- 6+ years backend software engineering experience, including 4+ years building distributed systems and scalable APIs.
- Proficiency in backend languages such as Python.
- Proficiency in backend languages such as C++.
- Proficiency in backend languages such as Java.
- Experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure as code (AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native development practices.
- Experience with high-performance computing and optimization of large-scale data processing pipelines.
- Excellent communication and strong technical decision-making in a startup environment.
- ITAR eligibility: U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
- Experience building geospatial databases, mapping technologies, or 3D visualizations.
- Familiarity with geospatial concepts, remote sensing, 3D data, or digital signal processing (e.g., SAR, LiDAR).
What We Do
High quality 3D imagery is the key to understanding the world around us and is critically important to a host of traditional and emerging industries. However, current methods of supplying this data are slow, expensive, or low-quality. Array Labs is developing next-generation earth observation satellites which will deliver a complete perspective of the earth in near-real time.
