Staff SW Engineer, Full Stack

Staff SW Engineer, Full Stack

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.

BlackSky is looking for a Staff Full-Stack Engineer to support the production AI/ML products, bridging GIS and machine learning workflows with dynamic web interfaces. This role requires expertise in Python/Go microservices, Cloud Infrastructure, Relational Databases, and React UI/UX to deliver geospatial intelligence. As part of the BlackSky labs team, you will help ensure we deliver consistent, reliable, and relevant AI/ML products to BlackSky's growing user base.

This position is a critical element of the BlackSky labs engineering team and is expected to work closely with the image operations, satellite operations, and machine learning teams to ensure success. The ideal candidate has geospatial software engineering, database, user interface, cloud infrastructure, cloud microservices, operations, testing experience; familiarity with satellite imagery or similar datasets; success working in an agile development environment; proficiency with AWS / Kubernetes; and experience with on-prem / airgapped deployment environments.

Additionally, the ideal candidate has demonstrated the ability to manage their own efforts over a broad scope of work as an independent contributor. Finally, the candidate should be an independent thinker with the demonstrated ability and willingness to lean in to learn new tools, technologies, and approaches to solve new problems. This role reports to the Manager of the BlackSky labs team and while we would prefer this position to be local to our Herndon, VA office, we are open to candidates in certain remote states.

Responsibilities

• Deployment and integration of computer vision solutions for next-generation satellite imagery analytics.
• Ensure high-quality and production-ready Python or Go services.
• Manage cloud infrastructure and code deployment to AWS, Kubernetes, or other environments.
• Develop novel React UI geospatial applications for imagery and analytic visualization.
• Develop and deploy relational database schemas for GIS data, imagery, and analytics, primarily using PostGres.
• Take part in the entire project lifecycle from requirements development to deployment.
• Serve as a lead on full-stack software development projects, data ETL projects, and software feature development.
• Collaborate with management and technical team on technical roadmap and implementation strategy.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of eight years of hands-on experience as a software engineer with at least three years focused on full stack development.
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in one of the following fields: computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, or another computational field or equivalent experience (four years equivalent for bachelor's degree).
• Demonstrated experience designing and building scalable production software solutions and architectures.