Software Engineer for Developing Altimetric Mission Center

Job overview

We’re looking for a Space Mission Center Software Engineer to work closely with the Mission Center team for developing production, distribution and monitoring components with high-level of quality, reliability and performance.

This position places you as an important part of the Mission Centre component, with a wide variety of interfaces : scientif processing chain, control center, infrastructure and other teams of the company involved in the project.

Core missions :

1. Development of the production component

• Integrate scientific processing chain into Argo workflow scheduler and develop all pre and post treatment need to handle data flows.
• Develop tools to interface Control Center allowing to generate telecommand for payloads and retrieve quickly telemetry. They also carry out some checks to ensure the completeness of the recovered data.
• Develop production monitoring software to allow operator knowing the production status and alert when a problem occured.

2. Development of the distribution component

• Develop a spatial data catalog in order to provide data to users in a normalized way, consistent with STAC specification.
• Implement a download end-point helping users to retrieve scientific product after spatial-temporal request.

3. Development of the monitoring component

• Develop a specific software based on data warehouse technology to store and agregate a huge amount of payload parameters in order to survey payloads healthy.
• Centralize and manage metrics and logs from all compnents of the Mission Centre and help team member to operate it providing consistent dashboard and alerts.

4. Component Integration and test campains

• Ensure integration activities and automatic test campaing regarding company devops rules and tools.
• Optimize migration and installation on successive environment.
• Participate to end-to-end tests with external component of the project simulating a representative day life of the constellation and Mission Centre operations.

Desired profile

• Minimum 2 years of experience in software development, with experience in integration activities with devops constraint .
• Python software development: writing clean, high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code using automated unit tests.
• Proficiency in develoment environment and programming tools (Python and related libraries, Git, Jira) as well as containerization process.
• Knowledge of workflow scheduler, monitoring stack based on Grafana, database request and object storage infrastructure are recommanded
• Knowledge of the space domain is a plus, in particular STAC specification
• Comfortable in a collaborative environment.
• Very good interpersonal skills, proactive and reliable.
• Fluent in French preferred; professional English essential.

Why join us ?

• A dynamic, caring, and collaborative environment.
• A transformative project at the forefront of innovation.
• A position at the heart of mission center operations