Engineer I, Software Developer

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Job Summary:

Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company. They are seeking an Engineer I, Software Developer to join their Ground Software Development team for a Space Development Agency project, focusing on software development and maintenance for ground software and supporting applications.

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with your team to develop and enhance software related to the SDA project

• Assist in developing optimized code for both scalability and performance

• Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for software development (Atlassian tool suite desired)

• Support efforts in creating and/or maintaining build environments for software products

• Work within team objectives to assist in planning and executing software releases per stakeholder/program schedules and budgets

• Participate in updating issue/feature data in Atlassian Project/Software tracking tools

• Follow existing Iridium processes for Change Control, Prioritization, Risk Management, Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) Management, Build, and Test software deployments and use knowledge to assist in development of process/procedure documentation materials

• Edit, structure, and present data, concepts, and arguments clearly and succinctly, through briefings and documentation

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, or other engineering discipline

• Exposure to Agile based teams

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to communicate key messages and ideas clearly and effectively.

• Can cultivate meaningful relationships with your manager and members of your team, while being open and responsive to constructive feedback as they guide and mentor you

• The ability to think outside the box to help solve problems, with the humility to ask for help when needed

• Adaptability to a dynamic environment and the readiness to take on any new tasks that are handed to you

• A motivation to achieve outcomes and results

• Capable of handling multiple tasks at once and completing them on time with mostly no errors

• Must be able to prioritize your tasks, be self-aware enough to identify and correct mistakes, and not be afraid to ask for help when needed

• Be active in seeking out ways to improve yourself and gain new knowledge, and be enthusiastic in sharing knowledge with others

• Be a U.S. Citizen

Preferred:

• Experience with Kubernetes / Docker

• Experience with Apache Kafka

• Experience with Grafana

• Experience with Linux based environments and bash shell scripting

• Experience with Java / Type Script / Python / Perl / C++

• Experience with XML / JSON / SQL

• Experience with No SQL based DBs (e.g., Mongo)

• Experience with js / Apache Web Server

• Experience with RESTful / / ELK or similar / WebSockets

• Experience with Atlassian management/software development tools: Jira / Git / Bitbucket / Crucible / Confluence and/or Gitlab

• Experience with Micro services architectures

• Experience with AWS cloud environments

Company:

Iridium's constellation consists of 66 low-earth orbiting (LEO), cross-linked satellites operating as a fully meshed. Founded in 2001, the company is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Public Company.