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Iridium

Senior Software Engineer

Iridium, Reston, Virginia, United States, 22090

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Senior Software Engineer Job Locations

US-AZ-Chandler | US-AZ-Chandler

Job ID

2025-4597

Category:

Engineering

| Worker Category:

Regular Full-Time[F]

Company Overview Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere in the world. For over 20 years, Iridium’s unique network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things.

At Iridium, we understand the importance of staying connected and the limitations of traditional communications networks. People across the globe, including first responders, humanitarians, global militaries, scientific researchers, and lone workers, as well as ships, aircraft and remote operations all rely on Iridium to stay connected. We take our responsibility for providing these essential communications very seriously and pride ourselves on offering a reliable lifeline when needed. Likewise, Iridium is committed to providing an exciting and innovative workplace, where employees are challenged to think outside the box and collaborate on new, bold ideas and solutions. Our talented teams are passionate about their work and the impact our company makes around the world. Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees to genuinely be their best selves. We are looking for others who want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference in the world.

What We’re Looking For: If you enjoy learning about and working with breakthrough technologies and are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Senior Software Engineer opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As the

Senior Software Engineer

within the Ground Systems Development team, you will apply cutting edge technologies to rapidly develop and deploy ground system operations and user service capabilities within a satellite operations environment. Additionally, the

Senior Software Engineer

will identify and autonomously implement ideas/solutions within the larger development team to support cross-functional efforts across all areas of ground system software development.

What You’ll Do:

Work independently to develop and enhance ground system software to meet the requirements of the SDA project

Develop optimized code for both scalability and performance

Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for software development (Atlassian tool suite desired)

Create or maintain build environments for software products

Play a key role in planning and executing software releases per stakeholder/program schedules and budgets

Update issue/feature data in Atlassian Project/Software tracking tools

Follow existing Iridium processes for Change Control, Prioritization, Risk Management, Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Management, Build and Test software deployments and use advanced knowledge to assist in development of process/procedure documentation materials

Edit, structure and present data, concepts and arguments clearly and succinctly through briefings and documentation

Respond to questions within scope from stakeholders, as appropriate

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, or other engineering discipline

8+ years software programming experience

Coding experience on Agile based teams

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues to groups outside of your team or those who are unfamiliar with the topic

Have confidence and be able to easily build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of your team

Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions and come up with out-of-the-box solutions

Be proactive in providing feedback and be enthusiastic in sharing your knowledge with others

Capable of prioritizing your own tasks and potentially the tasks of others while making sure deadlines are met

Proactivity in seeking out ways to continuously improve yourself and gain new knowledge, including the ability to learn the different software that make up the System Performance and Analysis software

Ability to comprehend technical documentation

Have a positive attitude to take on ever increasing software development tasks

Passion for working in a team driven environment consisting of operators, software testers, senior developers, and system engineers

Things That Would be

Great

if You Brought to the Table:

Experience with the following technologies:

Kubernetes / Docker / Podman / ArgoCD

CI/CD Pipelining (GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, BitBucket)

Linux based environments and bash shell scripting

Python / Java / C++ / Type Script / Perl

RESTful / HTTP / ELK or similar / WebSockets

XML / JSON / SQL

SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL based DBs (e.g., Mongo)

js / Apache Web Server

Security Vulnerability Analysis and Procedures (CVE, TLS)

Atlassian management/software development tools: Jira / Git / Crucible / Confluence

Microservices architectures

Automated testing frameworks

Gov and non-Gov Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments

We’ll Also Need You To:

Must be a US Citizen

Work Environment: This position primarily works in an office setting and is largely sedentary with the majority of the position working with a computer. The role typically requires the use of basic office equipment such as a phone, video, computer, keyboard, mouse, and printer.

Iridium is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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