Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning Operations

BlackSky

Staff Software Engineer focusing on geospatial MLOps solutions for BlackSky's AI/ML Platform. Collaborating with internal teams to deliver production-ready software solutions for satellite imagery analytics.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $150,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudEC2ETLGoKubernetesPostGISPostgresPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Deployment and integration of computer vision solutions for next-generation satellite imagery analytics.
Ensure high-quality and production-ready Python or Go code.
Manage cloud infrastructure and code deployment to AWS, Kubernetes, or other environments.
Take part in the entire project lifecycle from requirements development to deployment.
Serve as a lead on MLOps software development projects, data ETL projects, and software feature development.
Collaborate with management and technical team on technical roadmap and implementation strategy.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum of eight years of hands-on experience as a software engineer with at least three years focused on geospatial MLOps.
Bachelor’s Degree or higher in one of the following fields: computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, or another computational field or equivalent experience.
Demonstrated experience designing and building scalable production software solutions and architectures, especially for machine learning or image processing.
Strong Python3 proficiency or GO proficiency and experience writing production software for data ETL, REST APIs, micro-services, geospatial, or data analytics, and cloud deployment.
Experience with databases, SQL queries, and data model design especially SQL such as PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
Experience writing software to integrate with third-party APIs, performing data ETL, and managing complex data at scale in relational data stores.
Strong ability to communicate concepts and software system results with customers, management, and the technical team, highlighting actionable insights.
Hands on experience with cloud services such as AWS EKS, S3, EC2, Aurora / RDS, SQS, SNS, Batch, etc.
Due to program requirements, candidates must hold US citizenship.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
Flexible Spending Accounts
Employee Stock Purchase Program
Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
Employer matching donations
Professional development
Mac or PC? Your choice!
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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonGoMLOpsdata ETLREST APIsmicro-servicesgeospatialdata analyticsSQLimage processing

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingstrategic planning