Software Engineer (Ground Software)

• Muon is looking for a Software Engineer (Back-end) to join our Ground Software team
• The ideal candidate is a self-motivated and versatile software engineer who is excited to build our cloud infrastructure, web services and applications like mission planning & control software, ground station integrations, and tools to gain insight into Earth’s complex systems
• Our team broadly owns all the software that enables us to communicate with the satellite, as well as customer APIs that enable multi-satellite planning and scheduling
• We are fully responsible for the software we build through its full lifecycle; from implementing deployable applications, managing the infrastructure they run on, and supporting them running in production
• Build a world class Mission Planning & Control System in the cloud, using tools like Docker and FastAPI
• Participate in designing our cloud architecture: choosing which technologies we will use, how we will organize the system, and when we should build systems in-house vs buy them off the shelf, to maximize the impact of our team
• Manage the infrastructure we will use to deploy our cloud applications, using tools like Kubernetes, Helm, and AWS Lambda
• Build the spacecraft-to-cloud data integration: processing and archiving the command history and telemetry, using tools like Kafka, InfluxDB, and Grafana
• Build the APIs and tooling to integrate our cloud with remote antenna ground station networks
• Architect systems to achieve low latency and fault tolerance
• Deploy infrastructure and tools to workstations, on-premises data centers, and cloud environments

Benefits

• 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for employees; 50% coverage for dependents (Concierge Medical offered through One Medical where available)
• Parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
• Generous time off policy
• 401(k) plan through Betterment and equity management through Carta
• Fully stocked kitchen at our HQ and we cater lunch 3 days per week
• Dog-friendly office- Experience with cloud-native software development in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) using containers
• Excited to work in a fast-paced environment with new opportunities each week
• 4+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong programming experience in Python for web development
• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience
• We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application!
• Experience with the AWS / Govcloud ecosystem
• IT and Information security (authentication, encryption)
• Strong Linux fundamentals and comfortable with Linux development and deployment environment
• Experience smoothly deploying continuously evolving data services to customers
• Experience managing CI/CD in cloud-based development, staging, and production environments
• Have a passion for simple architectures and clean APIs