About the role
Muon Space is building an expert team that is designing and generating value-added products from Earth observations from Muon’s constellation of low Earth orbit satellites and other geospatial datasets. The Data Platform Software Engineer will be a key player on the Muon Science and Data Teams to support the development and operations of reliable data and machine learning pipelines using a modern data platform. This role will collaborate closely with geospatial, scientific, and machine learning product developers to incorporate scalable cloud resources and modern software engineering practices into Muon’s product development process in order to meet Muon’s goals in monitoring and addressing climate change. The candidate must be a US person.
This role may be remote or located at our headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Responsibilities
- Work with product developers to build and maintain data and machine learning pipelines in production using a managed software container platform
- Support continuous improvement of software engineering processes for building, deploying, and monitoring data and machine learning pipelines
- Provide expert support on data platform usage and best practices to product developers and scientists
- Collaborate with platform service providers to solve platform issues
- Integrate data platform resources with Muon’s wider cloud infrastructure
- Maintain expert knowledge of data platform solutions
Qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience using CI/CD processes for software and GitOps processes for infrastructure
- Experience using modern time series DB and Grafana for application and infrastructure monitoring
- Experience with common geospatial data formats (HDF5, Zarr, COG, …)
- Experience interacting with internal and external customers and service providers
- Experience working with container orchestration software platform in production
- Experience building event-driven and cloud native systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building APIs for data access
- Experience building data indexing and data lineage solutions
- Experience working with a distributed team of developers
- Experience working with SaaS providers of core infrastructure services
- Experience maintaining container orchestration software platform
- Experience developing products from geospatial data (including non-imagery data types)
- Experience developing retrieval algorithms for or products from satellite Earth observation data
- Experience harnessing compute accelerators (e.g. GPUs) in cloud container orchestration environment
Salary
The salary range for this role is $95K- $195K and will depend on a candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience as defined during the interview process.
About Muon Space
Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale. From climate monitoring to national security, Muon Space is dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.
Taking Care of Our Team
At Muon salary is only part of our total compensation package. In addition to salary, we provide equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, life insurance, and an employee development program. We also offer three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave.
Our mission embraces the entire planet and we believe our team should too. Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We value diversity in the workplace, and that starts with our applicants. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application! In addition, if you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.
ITAR/EAR Requirements
This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.
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