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Maxar is seeking a talented and security-oriented Software Engineer with API and front-end development experience to join our Usage, Billing, and Metrics team within Maxar Geospatial Platform Core.
Job Description
You will be part of the team responsible for developing, deploying, scaling and maintaining highly available and highly performant APIs for tracking usage within the Maxar Geospatial Platform, and building UIs for metrics and analytics of said usage. This engineer will contribute to a unified platform powering applications used by all of Maxar's customers (Commercial, USG, and International).
In this role, you will have the freedom to design and engineer solutions to drive innovative, modern approaches to meet our user needs and customer requirements. A successful candidate will be a passionate developer that embraces modern software development and insists others do as well. You will introduce automation and evangelize new tools and processes within a collaborative team environment. You will assist our Usage team with scaling, monitoring, and optimizing our APIs. You will build solutions, resolve defects, conduct code reviews, and communicate statuses in daily stand-ups within an agile workflow. This position participates in an on-call rotation to ensure our APIs are available, accessible, and performant.
This position is located in Westminster, CO or can be performed remotely. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.
Life with Us
Maxar Intelligence is a provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand, and navigate our changing planet. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale, and cost effectiveness.
Your Project: Deliver Maxar APIs with high availability, performance, and scale. Build interactive UIs that allow our analysts and Product team to understand our users, as well as UIs that monitor the health of Maxar Geospatial Platform Core services. You will work with cross-functional engineering, dev/ops, QA, security, and Product teams to support delivery of industry leading geospatial data and analytics to our customers.
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 to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career.
What We Offer: Time for dedicated professional development, remote work, 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-today
- Develop full-stack software for high-performance APIs and UIs within an Agile team environment
- Commit code to Git repository using CI/CD practices and perform Pull Request reviews
- Create unit tests and procedures to verify software functionality and collaborate with our QA team
- Help architect features and capabilities, as well as document the implementation
- Participate in daily stand-ups and sprint planning
- Participate in on-call rotation to minimize API downtime and provide immediate resolution
Minimum Requirements:
- Must be a US citizen or permanent resident
- Must have a Bachelor's degree in a related field
- Minimum of 3 - 5 years of related experience
- Programming experience with Java and Python
- Experience building front-end applications (e.g., Vue, React)
- Experience developing REST API endpoints
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with service-oriented and microservice architectures
- Exposure to database technologies and management principles
- Experience building cloud-native services (AWS, Google, Azure)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum of 7 - 10 years of related experience
- Familiarity with Jenkins
- Experience with ELK Stack (i.e., Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Familiarity with ArgoCD and Helm or similar
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) and CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab)
- Familiarity with query languages (SQL, PL/SQL) and databases (relational, NoSQL, and graph databases e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j)
- Experience with security and access management architectures
- Experience with utilizing automated testing and linting
- Strong written communication
- Highly focused self-starter that likes solving problems
- Passion for learning and teaching new technical skills
- Experience working on a geographically distributed team
In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.
• The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $119,000.00 - $199,000.00 annually.
• The base pay for this position within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $131,000.00 - $219,000.00 annually.
• The base pay for this position within California is: $137,000.00 - $229,000.00 annually.
For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits
Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.
The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.
The date of posting can be found on Maxar's Career page at the top of each job posting.
To apply, submit your application via Maxar's Career page.
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.
Maxar is seeking a talented and security-oriented Software Engineer with API and front-end development experience to join our Usage, Billing, and Metrics team within Maxar Geospatial Platform Core.
Job Description
You will be part of the team responsible for developing, deploying, scaling and maintaining highly available and highly performant APIs for tracking usage within the Maxar Geospatial Platform, and building UIs for metrics and analytics of said usage. This engineer will contribute to a unified platform powering applications used by all of Maxar's customers (Commercial, USG, and International).
In this role, you will have the freedom to design and engineer solutions to drive innovative, modern approaches to meet our user needs and customer requirements. A successful candidate will be a passionate developer that embraces modern software development and insists others do as well. You will introduce automation and evangelize new tools and processes within a collaborative team environment. You will assist our Usage team with scaling, monitoring, and optimizing our APIs. You will build solutions, resolve defects, conduct code reviews, and communicate statuses in daily stand-ups within an agile workflow. This position participates in an on-call rotation to ensure our APIs are available, accessible, and performant.
This position is located in Westminster, CO or can be performed remotely. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.
Life with Us
Maxar Intelligence is a provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand, and navigate our changing planet. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale, and cost effectiveness.
Your Project: Deliver Maxar APIs with high availability, performance, and scale. Build interactive UIs that allow our analysts and Product team to understand our users, as well as UIs that monitor the health of Maxar Geospatial Platform Core services. You will work with cross-functional engineering, dev/ops, QA, security, and Product teams to support delivery of industry leading geospatial data and analytics to our customers.
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 to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career.
What We Offer: Time for dedicated professional development, remote work, 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-today
- Develop full-stack software for high-performance APIs and UIs within an Agile team environment
- Commit code to Git repository using CI/CD practices and perform Pull Request reviews
- Create unit tests and procedures to verify software functionality and collaborate with our QA team
- Help architect features and capabilities, as well as document the implementation
- Participate in daily stand-ups and sprint planning
- Participate in on-call rotation to minimize API downtime and provide immediate resolution
Minimum Requirements:
- Must be a US citizen or permanent resident
- Must have a Bachelor's degree in a related field
- Minimum of 3 - 5 years of related experience
- Programming experience with Java and Python
- Experience building front-end applications (e.g., Vue, React)
- Experience developing REST API endpoints
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with service-oriented and microservice architectures
- Exposure to database technologies and management principles
- Experience building cloud-native services (AWS, Google, Azure)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum of 7 - 10 years of related experience
- Familiarity with Jenkins
- Experience with ELK Stack (i.e., Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Familiarity with ArgoCD and Helm or similar
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) and CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab)
- Familiarity with query languages (SQL, PL/SQL) and databases (relational, NoSQL, and graph databases e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j)
- Experience with security and access management architectures
- Experience with utilizing automated testing and linting
- Strong written communication
- Highly focused self-starter that likes solving problems
- Passion for learning and teaching new technical skills
- Experience working on a geographically distributed team
In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.
• The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $119,000.00 - $199,000.00 annually.
• The base pay for this position within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $131,000.00 - $219,000.00 annually.
• The base pay for this position within California is: $137,000.00 - $229,000.00 annually.
For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits
Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.
The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.
The date of posting can be found on Maxar's Career page at the top of each job posting.
To apply, submit your application via Maxar's Career page.
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.
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