HP099 Scientific Software Developer

Space and Earth Science Data Analysis; Greenbelt (MD); On-site; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Affordable medical and dental plans

Leading disability and life insurance options

Employee-centric benefits package

Job summary

A leading space research center in Greenbelt, MD seeks a Scientific Software Developer for a full-time on-site position. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining services for the Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO), improving existing software, and creating automated monitoring tools. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering and significant experience in Python web development. US Citizenship or Permanent Residency is required, along with the capacity to maintain a Tier 1 Background Investigation.

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years relevant work experience.
• Experience in Python web software development.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Tier 1 Background Investigation.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain VSO services.
• Improve and implement unit tests for VSO code.
• Create automated process monitoring tools.

Skills

Python web software development

Writing unit tests

Middleware setup and running

MySQL

Postgres databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

uWSGI

uvicorn

Gunicorn

Graphite

Job description

We are seeking a Scientific Software Developer to join the Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO) team. This is a full-time on-site position at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD.

The VSO is a software project developed at GSFC that provides the software infrastructure to enable users everywhere to find and access solar physics data from multiple heterogeneous scientific data repositories across the world. The VSO is one of the principal tools used by scientists all over the world to search for and download data about the Sun.

The primary focus of this position is to develop, implement, and maintain a new implementation of the VSO, including new services. Duties of the role include the design, implementation, and maintenance of VSO services, improving and implementing unit tests for the VSO code, creating automated process monitoring tools to gain insight into the operation and usage of the VSO, and improving the VSO development environment.

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering and a minimum of three years relevant work experience (or equivalent degree/diploma and work experience).
• 5+ years of Python web software development.
• Writing units tests for Python online data communication and processing pipelines.
• Experience in setting up and running middleware such as uWSGI, uvicorn, Gunicorn, and Graphite.
• MySQL and Postgres databases.
• US Citizenship or Permanent Residency (LPR) required, with US residency for the past 3 consecutive years.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Tier 1 Background Investigation through NASA.

Desired Experience

• Distributed development systems (for example cvs, git).
• Continuous integration (for example travis, jenkins).
• Working in a scientific data analysis environment.
• SOAP and RESTful interfaces.
• Working with a highly distributed team.
• Creation and monitoring of data processing pipelines, generation of reports.
• Scanning of log files to generate automatically status and usage reports.

Team ADNET brings over 30+ years of experience to information systems and professional services for the federal government. With a history of expertise in software development, computer network design, IT security, mission operations support, and educational outreach, Team ADNET is deeply embedded in the Space and Earth Science at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD.

ADNET Systems, Inc. is working with Goddard Space Flight Center to fulfill NASA’s vision for space exploration, and working with the Science and Exploration Directorate to fulfill its many missions.

ADNET Systems, Inc. is an employee-centric company, committed to providing premier benefits that support our employees and their families. With affordable medical and dental plans coupled with leading disability and life insurance options, ADNET offers our employees the benefits most sought after by today’s professional candidate. Furthermore, our benefits package features the extras that distinguish us from other small businesses, ensuring our high employee retention that our customers appreciate.

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