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Maxar is looking for a Senior Software/Data Engineer to join our team. We have amazing talent in other areas and need someone with deep technical knowledge and experience to lead and innovate.
Life with Us
Your Project: We are building a platform to detect, characterize, and alert on real-time events from multiple sources to augment decision makers with better situational awareness and understanding. We use many tools including Apache Flink, Spark, and Kafka to power an analytic pipeline as well as Iceberg for historic analysis. The team already has skilled data scientists, but we need someone to help accelerate backend processing by designing new functionality and optimizing existing pipelines.
Your Career: We’re very serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer our team members the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has amazing resources to support learning and development. You will work with your supervisor, or a mentor, to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career.
What We Offer: Time for dedicated professional development, conference attendance, corporate partner and industry training, peer group collaboration, hackathons, as well as paid certifications, education reimbursement and student loan forgiveness.
What you’ll do day-to-day:
Design and develop event-driven applications using Apache Flink
Work with stakeholders to architect data flows and persistence structures
Monitor and optimize application performance
Lead and manage a small team of software developers
Minimum requirements for this position
US citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance with agency suitability.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related field. Four additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree.
Requires at least 10 years of development experience, majority on the backend data processing.
Strong Java/Scala/Kotlin skills.
Technical experience leading an Agile team.
Significant experience writing technical documentation including system administration guides, architecture diagrams, and proposals.
Significant experience with software testing including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
Recent experience with some of these technologies:
Apache Ecosystem, specifically Flink, Spark, and Kafka
Virtualized Applications and Clusters, specifically Docker and Kubernetes
Cloud Deployment including (e.g. AWS EC2, S3, VPC, IAM)
Distributed and/or streaming data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL)
Data Lakes (e.g. Delta Lake, Snowflake, Iceberg)
GitOps, DevOps, SecOps practices
These skills would be amazing
Current/active TS/SCI clearance.
Advanced degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related field.
Experience using Agile frameworks across teams such as SAFe.
Proficient in GIS tools and techniques such as GeoTools and QGIS.
Experience acting as a technical liaison between engineering team members and stakeholders.
Experience designing, implementing, and visualizing both relational and non-relational data architectures.
Experience implementing statistical and machine learning techniques at scale.
Experience with the following technologies:
Apache NiFi
Graph Databases (e.g. Neo4J)
Static and Dynamic Code Scanners (e.g. Sonarqube, HP Fortify, Trivy, Claire, Anchore)
Continuous Operations Automation (e.g. Jenkins, ArgoCD)
Python data science tools (e.g. Jupyter, Pandas, Torch)
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COVID-19 Update:
All Maxar U.S. employees and international employees who work in the U.S. and visit Maxar sites must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 no later than January 18, 2022, except in cases where legally entitled to an exception.
Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.