What We’re Looking For:

If you enjoy learning about and working with breakthrough technologies, we want to hear from you! We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Aireon/Iridium HPOC Development team. As the Principal Software Engineer, you will apply advanced expertise in cutting edge technologies to develop and deploy Aireon/Iridium payload ground control software and supporting user service capabilities. You will also provide expertise and peer mentorship within the larger development team to support cross-functional efforts and collaboration across design and full stack development activities.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead collaborative efforts and initiatives with the Aireon/Iridium development and engineering team to develop new ground software components founded upon modern languages and deployment techniques
• Develop optimized code for both scalability, performance, and availability in support of customer concepts, requirements, and operational use cases
• Independently deliver results following Aireon processes for prioritization, configuration management, risk management, and software development processes.
• Proactively prototype, build, and test software implementations to roadmap design and implementation concepts to production
• Develop software within the Aireon-defined Agile/Scrum framework and DevOps Azure development environment
• Plan and execute software releases, providing input into stakeholder/program planning, schedules, and budgets
• Confidently present complex information to groups outside of your team through briefings, demonstrations, and documentation covering planned implementation, or issue resolutions, with limited preparation
• Utilize your expertise with cloud and on-premises computing to architect and deploy geographically diverse high available micro-service solutions
• Leverage knowledge to make enhancements to process/procedure/training documentation and identify technical training needs
• Mentor junior level developers in the design and implementation approaches
• Deliver constructive, meaningful feedback and proactively offer guidance and knowledge-sharing with team members

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related engineering discipline
• 10 years of software programming experience
• The ability to create or maintain a high availability architecture
• Effective Microsoft Office skills
• The ability to learn, work with, and become proficient with open-source packages to leverage your development efficiency
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues clearly and confidently, and recognize and adapt to different communication techniques
• Can easily build meaningful relationships with others, including senior leadership outside of your own department, and is comfortable providing constructive feedback to your team members and management
• Be able to analyze a situation or problem, generate effective solutions, and see those solutions through to completion
• Must possess the creativity and resourcefulness needed to make reliable decisions and determine methods on new assignments
• Can thrive in a dynamic environment by handling multiple tasks and managing shifting priorities
• Be proactive in sharing knowledge you’ve learned with others
• Have a strong work ethic and a positive attitude when taking on ever increasing SW development tasks

Things That Would be Great if You Brought to the Table:

• Experience with the following technologies:
• Micro services architectures build on ubi8/ubi9 container images
• Docker / Podman / Kubernetes (AKS)
• C# / C / Python / Java / Type Script
• NATS.io messaging
• Redhat based environments
• Azure DevOps development/deployment environment and processes
• Helm Charts
• Grafana
• RESTful / HTTP / WebSockets / XML / JSON
• Atlassian Cloud management/software development tools: Jira / Bitbucket / Crucible / Confluence
• Role based authentication, secrets management, Azure RBAC
• Automated testing frameworks

We’ll also need you to:

• Be a U.S. citizen
• Ability to work in the office at least 3 days a week to foster collaboration with the team and stakeholders

Work Environment:

This position primarily works in the company office or in a home office. The position is largely sedentary with the majority of the position sitting in a chair and working with a computer. The role uses basic office equipment including a phone, video, computer, keyboard, mouse and printer. For meetings in-person, this position will need to be able stand, walk within the office and climb stairs on occasion.

Iridium is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or status as a protected veteran. EOE of Minorities/Females/Vets/Disability and other protected categories.