Staff / Sr Staff Python Software Engineer

SciTec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, is a dynamic non-traditional defense contractor that delivers advanced technologies in support of U.S. National Security. For over forty-five years, we have supported Department of Defense customers by developing innovative remote sensing algorithms, tools, and techniques to deliver world-class data exploitation capabilities supporting missile defense; intelligence, surveillance, & reconnaissance; space domain awareness; and aircraft survivability missions.

• →A Bachelor's degree in the physical sciences, mathematics, engineering, or computer science 
• →2+ years professional software engineering experience 
• →Familiarity with microservice architectures   
• →Strong proficiency in Python 
• →Demonstrable understanding of principles related to software engineering 
• →Commitment to quality in code and software engineering practices 
• →The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance 
• →Detail oriented 
• →Good verbal and written communication skills 

Candidates who have any of the following skills will be preferred 

• →An advanced degree in the physical sciences, mathematics, engineering, or computer science 
• →Experience or background with remotely sensed data or aerospace engineering principles
• →Familiarity with messaging technologies such as protobuf, ZMQ, Kafka, gRPC, REST APIs 
• →Background in statistics
• →Professional experience with DevOps processes and tools such as Docker, Jenkins, Gitlab-CI/CD 
• →Experience with SQL, PostGIS, Redis 
• →Existing DoD security clearance