Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning Platform (Remote)

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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.
The Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer is a hands-on individual contributor role that reports to the Manager, Software Test & Infrastructure. You’ll be responsible for the end-to-end build systems, configuration, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tool integration. Additionally, you’ll contribute to software requirements and test plan support for those capabilities and features. The preferred location is Tukwila, WA with the ability to work in the Tukwila office 1-2 days a week but we may be open to strong remote candidates.
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.
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.
Expertise with developer took 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.
Excellent root cause analysis and problem-solving skills.
Must be able to work with minimal supervision.
Experience testing and verifying embedded software
Bonus if experience building or maintaining hardware for embedded software testing
Experience programming in Python
Experience programming in C/C++
Bonus for ability to debug C/C++ and perform fault analysis
Life at BlackSky for full-time US benefits eligible employees includes

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Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
~15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
~401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
~ Flexible Spending Accounts
~ Employee Stock Purchase Program
~ Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
~ All Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.