Muon Space - Senior Software Engineer, IR Data Products
Requirements
• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years or MS with 6+ years or PhD with 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience. • Demonstrated experience shipping and operating production Python data pipelines and backend services on AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure. • Hands-on experience with a modern workflow orchestrator (e.g., Flyte, Airflow, Prefect, Argo, Dagster, or similar) and containerized deployments. • Strong software engineering fundamentals: production Python code, unit and integration testing, Git-based trunk development, code review, CI/CD, etc. • Demonstrated experience adding production-grade observability to a system: structured logging, metrics, dashboards, alerts, and on-call ownership. • Working geospatial domain knowledge — hands-on experience with common geospatial libraries (e.g., GDAL/OGR, rasterio, PROJ, shapely) and formats (e.g., GeoTIFF, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF, NetCDF, Zarr, HDF). • Ability to work with a distributed, interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and program management. • Experience building and operating a STAC catalog (stac-fastapi, pystac, pgstac, or equivalent) and associated ingest and query paths. • Experience with xarray / Zarr / NetCDF at scale, including chunked processing and streaming reads from S3. • Experience building internal data-visualization or inspection tools (dashboards, map viewers, notebook-based workflows) that support scientific debugging. • Experience with Grafana, LogQL, Prometheus, or InfluxDB in production. • Experience with satellite ground-segment concepts (downlink, telemetry, capture / swath structure) or other remote-sensing data pipelines. • Experience with Flyte / Union.ai specifically. • Terraform / IaC experience for AWS resources. • Experience productionizing research or scientific code written by non-engineers. • 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.
Responsibilities
• Design, build, and operate the production pipelines that process IR Mission captures through L1 imagery, multispectral stacking, geolocation, orthomosaic tiles, hotspots, and derived wildfire products. • Optimize pipeline infrastructure, services, and algorithms to minimize latency. • Design and build geospatial data discovery and data-serving infrastructure and APIs used by internal product developers and downstream customers. • Design and build internal data-visualization and inspection tools for geospatial data. • Maintain and improve the software testing and release infrastructure and processes. • Partner with Remote Sensing Data Scientists to productionize research code — hardening error paths, adding tests, adding observability, and making it re-runnable and idempotent. • Build observability of the IR data pipeline end-to-end: structured logging, dashboards, metrics and alerts.
Benefits
• The salary range for this role is $192,000 - $213,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process. • 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, full-time employees receive equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short & long term disability and life insurance. 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. • Muon is currently registered and able to hire in the following states:AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IA, ID, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA
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