Software Engineer - Data Engineering

About Muon Space

Muon Space is working at the forefront of satellites, advanced sensors, business intelligence, and climate science. From satellite missions to modeling to data analytics and actionable insights, we believe measuring, understanding and predicting Earth’s complex, coupled systems is both a great business opportunity and key to leaving future generations a livable, productive and healthy planet.

We are a geographically diverse company with teams in the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles, and Boulder, Colorado. We seek great talent wherever it may be.

About the role

Muon is looking for a Software Engineer (Data Engineering) to join our mission software team. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated versatile software/data engineer who is excited to build data pipelines, tools, visualizations, and cloud infrastructure to gain insight into Earth’s complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Have a passion for solving problems around and with data

• Be part of the team that architects and develops Muon’s data pipelines and tooling that converts earth sensing and observations into actionable insights

• Educate the organization on how to access and use Muon’s data

• Build scalable systems to collect, ingest, index, store, present, and deliver data internally and to Muon’s customers

• Deploy infrastructure and tools to workstations, on-premises datacenters, and cloud environments

• Design superb visualizations and access tools for temporal and geospatial data

• Collaborate with the satellite team to efficiently ingest and index collected data

• Co-develop analytic methods and processing pipelines with Muon’s science team

• Connect Muon’s data pipelines to our customers

Qualifications

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in data engineering, computer science, or related field

• 5+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment

• Strong programming experience in Python and one or more additional languages such as Go, Javascript, Java, R, Scala, Matlab, Julia, etc.

• Experience selecting and deploying database technology based on specific performance and feature needs (SQL/NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB, etc)

• Expertise in messaging/streaming infrastructures like MQTT, Kafka, Redis, etc, and visualizations using Grafana, Tableau, etc.

• Knowledge of industry-standard data formats and schemas (ProtoBuf, YAML, JSON, etc)

• Experience with cloud-native software development in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) using containers and kubernetes

• Strong Linux fundamentals, and comfortable with Linux development and deployment environment

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Excited to work in a fast-paced environment with new challenges each week

Nice-to-have Skills

• AI/ML methods and infrastructure

• Web interactive UI design (for data access and visualization)

• IT and Information security (authentication, encryption)

• Experience smoothly deploying continuously evolving data services to customers

Equal Opportunity

At Muon, our mission embraces the entire planet, and we believe our team should too. Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. If you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.