Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Umbra is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and contribute to the development of our internal software applications and services. As a key back-end contributor, you will collaborate with product owners and multidisciplinary engineering teams to analyze, develop, and maintain the software that supports our autonomous satellite operations. This role offers the flexibility to work fully remote or in a hybrid model from our offices in Santa Barbara, CA, Austin, TX, or Arlington, VA.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, test, and maintain applications that run our satellites, addressing challenges such as automating spacecraft operations, mission scheduling, command and telemetry pipeline, mission data pipeline, and anomaly response.
• Provide software architecture expertise to cross-functional engineering and product teams.
• Establish and adhere to DevOps practices to ensure customer and satellite-operational needs are met with quality and performance.
• Perform other professional duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience developing highly available web services with server-side scripting languages, preferably Python.
• 3+ years of experience designing, developing, and testing intuitive and well-documented commercial RESTful APIs.
• Foundational understanding of software architecture, event-driven microservices, interface design, and automated testing patterns.
• Experience with database-backed applications and relational database concepts, preferably Postgres.
• Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Experience designing and documenting commercial APIs, preferably with Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Current security clearance or willingness and ability to acquire one.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience in the aerospace industry.
• Experience building software to automate space operations.
• Experience with mission scheduling software and/or schedule optimization.
• Experience developing image processing/formation applications.
• Experience building custom GIS applications, STAC, or other imagery catalog APIs.
• DevOps/SRE-related background, such as:
  • Experience developing Kubernetes/Docker containerized services.
  • Experience developing automated build and test pipelines in a CI/CD lifecycle.
  • Experience with app/infrastructure monitoring and alerting principles and best practices.
  • Experience with cloud and application security, access control, and identity management.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off, Sick, Family & Medical Leave
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, LTD, STD (employer funded)
• Voluntary Life, Critical Illness, Accidental, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance (employee funded)
• 401k with 3% non-elective company contribution
• Stock Options

Umbra is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

Employment Eligibility Verification

In compliance with federal laws, all hired persons will be required to verify their identity and eligibility to work in the United States by completing the required Employment Eligibility Verification Form (I-9 Form) upon hire.

ITAR/EAR Requirements

This position may include access to technology and/or data that is subject to U.S. export controls pursuant to ITAR and EAR. To comply with federal export controls, all persons hired must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee or asylee as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or must otherwise be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or U.S. Department of Commerce as applicable.