Senior Staff Python Engineer

As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer on the software team, you will be writing software to automate every aspect of testing and launching many rockets. You will build the tools to collect and analyze high-speed, high-precision data, and you will invent the technologies that power the next generation of the space industry. We mean that.

How You'll Fulfill Your Mission

• Learn:Work with cross-functional teams to understand end-to-end how we design,manufacture,test,assemble,and launch our products.
• Build:Modern,responsive tools to improve the happiness,efficiency,and effectiveness of your coworkers.
• Fail fast:Embrace change and iteration over dogma and stagnation.
• Dream:Think big in terms of what's possible to build a truly extraordinary software system.

• You have a passion for software; we believe software gives you the power to make each day better for the people around you.
• You can thrive in a reactive environment; our software touches nearly every facet of the company,and the company moves fast.
• You are willing to tackle hard problems; we are capable of changing how the world interacts with space,sometimes that means inventing new,better ways of doing things.
• You enjoy collaboration; we work daily with many teams with diverse backgrounds,skill sets,and levels of experience.Empathy goes a long way.
• You have strong coding skills; our stack is primarily Python and TypeScript,but we interact with C/C++,Go,and various other languages regularly.
• You undertake projects and tasks with an attention to detail coupled with a sense of urgency; we deal with high voltage,explosives,and cryogenic materials.
• You have been building production software for 10 years or more; we use old things as well as new and need the experience.

• Cloud-native software development
• Time-series database technology
• Building services with high availability and high reliability
• Common API patterns,frameworks,and formats:GRPC,REST,JSON,YAML,Protobuf
• Telemetry aggregation,packet tracing,control systems
• Open source projects