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About Us

LeoLabs enables military space commands, civil government agencies, and commercial operators to confidently detect, track, characterize, and respond to threats in space. Our proliferated, multi-mission radar network, real-time orbital data catalog, and AI-powered analytics support secure, safe, and dynamic space operations.

At LeoLabs, our core values of

Innovation,

Integrity, and

Impactguide everything we do. We foster an environment where bold ideas are encouraged, doing the right thing is fundamental, and our work makes a meaningful difference in safeguarding space and our way of life on Earth. As part of our team, youll contribute to building the worlds most comprehensive living map of orbital activity, designed to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our era. Together, we are preserving the U.S. and Allied advantage in space, driving the growth of the global economy, and enabling the future of space exploration and innovation.

The Opportunity

LeoLabs is seeking a talented individual to join our Catalog team as a Senior Software Engineer. The Catalog team's charter is to build and maintain the worlds best independent catalog of objects in low Earth orbit using sensor data from LeoLabs and our partners. We deploy software to public cloud environments and other operational environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security across our infrastructure. We also focus on optimizing our data pipeline across multiple areas, including radar scheduling, measurement association, orbit determination and propagation, and new object discovery.

As a part of our team, you will make significant contributions to both the developer experience and the customer experience for the LeoLabs Platform. You will explore and incorporate new technologies to help scale the data pipeline, enabling it to support more radar sources and the growing number of objects in space. Your work will directly contribute to improving space object tracking, space traffic management, and orbital safetycritical components in ensuring the sustainable use of LEO(low earth orbit).

Qualifications

M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience

6+ years experience with Python in a SaaS platform

Experience designing, building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines

Experience with architecting and scaling full stack or distributed backend systems

Experience with AWS

Experience with cloud deployment technologies, such as Kubernetes, Docker containers

Experience with relational databases

Deep understanding of good software development practices, agile practices, security, documentation and observability

Experience with event-driven architectures and message queuing systems

Ability to work on-call outside of normal business hours during critical escalations

Experience in agile and test-driven development methodologies

Able to hold a USA security clearance

Preferred qualifications

Experience deploying to secure environments.

Hold an active security clearance

Experience working with RESTful web services

Working experience with Kafka

Working experience with Postgres

Experience developing and maintaining microservices-based architectures

Familiarity with Math, Physics, or Orbital Mechanics

Within 1 month, youll:

Complete LeoLabs' onboarding program and gain a deep understanding of our business, vision, and team

Set up your local development environment and become familiar with our engineering stack

Participate in your first sprint, contributing to small bug fixes or feature improvements

Shadow a senior engineer and orbit support analyst to understand our data pipeline and system architecture

Within 3 months, youll:

Take ownership of a small-to-medium feature, from design to implementation

Improve an aspect of our data pipeline performance (e.g., optimizing a query, reducing processing time for a specific job)

Conduct your first production deployment, following our CI/CD process

Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., Product, Infrastructure) to understand dependencies and align on priorities

Provide feedback in code reviews and contribute to team discussions on technical design decisions

Within 6 months, youll:

Take a leadership role in a key technical initiative, such as scaling our data pipeline to support additional radars and newly launched objects

Build internal dashboards to monitor data quality and system performance

Lead an incident response or troubleshooting effort, demonstrating a deep understanding of our system

Contribute to architectural decisions that enhance system scalability and reliability

Within 12 months, youll:

Be a domain expert in one or more areas of the system

Drive a major technical improvement, such as re-architecting a part of our pipeline for better scalability

Establish best practices and guidelines for software development, security, and system observability

Present a technical deep dive or post-mortem to the broader engineering team

Lead cross-team collaborations to improve system interoperability and efficiency

Have helped shape the software engineering culture at Leolabs

We do not work with outside staffing agencies

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. More information regarding ITAR can be found at DDTCs website

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