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 Data Platform Team to support the development and operations of a reliable software container platform for hosting data and machine learning pipelines. This role will collaborate closely with data and software engineers and 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.

This role may be remote or located at our headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain Muon’s data platform container orchestration infrastructure
Work with product developers to build and maintain data and machine learning pipelines
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
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 building and maintaining container orchestration software platform
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 interacting with internal and external customers and service providers

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building APIs for data access
Experience with common geospatial data formats (HDF5, NIST, COG, …)
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 developing products from geospatial data (including non-imagery data types)
Experience developing retrieval algorithms for or products from satellite Earth observation data

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, 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.

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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