Senior Ground Software Engineer

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• Astro Mechanica is seeking a Senior Ground Software Engineer (Telemetry & Control) to join our growing team. The ideal candidate is excited to own all of our aircraft’s data from the moment it leaves the plane until a command goes back to it: everything from the aircraft radio down. You will architect the end-to-end system that ingests, processes, stores, and visualizes flight telemetry in Mission Control, observes the health of the aircraft, and commands the plane. This is not a big-data problem; the data is modest in volume but complex and time critical, and it should reach an operator’s screen within one second of leaving the aircraft. Your work at Astro Mechanica will be fast-paced in a dynamic startup environment and will have a direct impact on our mission.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or a Science discipline and 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience building real-time data or telemetry ingestion and processing systems
• Experience implementing a cloud stack that ingests data, stores it in a database, and processes it to serve an application (web, mobile, or otherwise)
• Hands-on experience with time series databases and a strong understanding of the trade-offs between database technologies and data ingestion approaches
• Experience designing low-latency, high-reliability systems, including fault tolerance for network and service failures
• Proficiency in the languages, frameworks, and API design used to expose data from a database to applications
• Breadth across the stack, with the greatest depth on the backend and cloud side; you don’t need to have built every layer
• Front-end experience building web apps that query a server and render live data is a plus
• Experience with telemetry from physical systems (aircraft, launch vehicles, satellites, autonomous vehicles, or connected vehicle fleets), radio links, or mission control and observability tooling is a plus