Sr Engineer, Software

Senior Software Engineer

About Us:

BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.

Job Summary:

Join the Satellite Embedded Software Group (ESG) as a Senior Software Build Engineer. This is a hands-on individual contributor role that reports to the Director of Flight Software. You’ll be responsible for the end-to-end build systems, configuration, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tool integration. This role also contributes heavily to internal tools including device emulators and emulation environments. Additionally, you’ll contribute to software requirements and test plan support for those capabilities and features.

As a senior member of the ESG team, you’ll make a large business impact across multiple critical programs from design to execution. You’ll collaborate across our embedded systems group and work closely with other cross-functional and program team members.

The preferred location is Tukwila, WA but remote candidates will be considered. The ability to work in the Tukwila office 1-2 days a week is ideal.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and manage build systems, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS.
• Drive work to timely completion using task management tools like Jira in an Agile-like environment; participate and lead in status and standup meetings, sprint planning, tasking, etc.
• Collaborate with other ESG software team members and other cross-functional engineers from multiple disciplines to deliver mission-critical software infrastructure and tools that are on-time and high quality.
• Ensure that adequate documentation, test, inspection, and analysis is delivered and performed to verify compliance with requirements and other goals.
• Execute and provide feedback for flight software design, development, unit tests and releases processes.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
• At least six (6) years of experience delivering and maintaining commercial/embedded software in a production environment.
• Expertise in engineering clean and maintainable Python and Bash code.
• Experience with version control and continuous integration.
• Expertise with developer tool chains, build tools and pipeline, such as Git, GitLab, GitLab CI, Jenkins, JIRA.
• Expertise working with Linux toolchains and environments (Gnu toolchain, QEMU, Buildroot, Yocto).
• Experience working in Agile/SCRUM environment.
• Proven experience delivering products on time and on budget.
• Excellent root cause analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work across teams, skills s