Radar Software Engineer
LeoLabs
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Your work directly impacts mission-critical radar systems that support national security, commercial space operations, and global space safety by enabling precise detection, tracking, and analysis of objects in space.
- Daily work focuses on software development in the following key areas:
- Software Development & System Reliability
- Build out tests and observability tooling (logs, metrics, alerts)
- Improve unit test speed and parallelization
- Simplify and document local unit test execution for all team members
- Develop and integrate system/integration tests into the automated testing pipeline
- Rewrite and harden the radar deployment system for robustness, speed, and reliability
- Maintain CI pipelines and GitHub Actions workflows for the radar software stack
- Build and maintain a Radar team operational dashboard
- Develop new data plotting and file writing utilities for data output
- Benchmark and analyze Linux system tuning for real-time radar applications
- Improve configuration management system
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Python for services, tooling, and automation
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Solid understanding of software testing practices
- Experience with REST API design and implementation
- Ability to work effectively across software, infrastructure, and operations teams
- S. Citizenship or permanent resident
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, plus 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Experience with database systems (SQL and/or NoSQL), query writing, and schema design
- Demonstrated experience improving developer experience: test infrastructure, local dev tooling, or deployment automation
Benefits
- Global workforce: flexible remote/hybrid opportunities
- Work on complex, meaningful missions with real-world impact
- Unlimited paid time off for most roles
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Access to the forefront of commercial space operations and defense innovation
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonCI/CD pipelinessoftware testing practicesREST API designdatabase systemsSQLNoSQLtest infrastructurelocal dev toolingdeployment automation
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingdocumentationanalytical thinking