LeoLabs is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to build software that powers real-time decisions for protecting and managing satellites and other objects in low-earth orbit. This role will contribute to a living map of activity in space, protecting billions in assets, monitoring adversarial behavior, and ensuring safe operations for commercial and government missions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time building cloud-based systems at scale
- Demonstrated expertise designing, building, deploying, and operating distributed backend services
- Deep proficiency in Python (required) with production experience in at least one additional language (Go, C++, or similar)
- Strong understanding of architecture patterns, service boundaries, message-driven workflows, and API design
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure) and containerized deployments
- Expertise with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL) and message brokers (Kafka, SQS, or similar)
- Strong grasp of testing strategies, observability, CI/CD practices, and reliability engineering
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, distributed backend services and APIs
- Drive architecture decisions for major components and cross-team integrations
- Collaborate with front-end, data, and infrastructure teams to define end-to-end solutions
- Ensure reliability, observability, security, and performance across production systems
- Define and improve engineering practices, architecture patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling
- Own critical services through the full development lifecycle—including operation, monitoring, and on-call support
- Evaluate and integrate new technologies and approaches to improve robustness and developer experience
Other
- Mentor, guide, and support other engineers through design reviews, pairing, and informal coaching
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams
- Comfortable participating in and guiding on-call rotations for critical systems
- Eligibility for US security clearance
- B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
