Senior Geospatial Infrared Data Engineer

Front Door Defense; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Paid vacation + holidays

Job summary

Muon Space in Denver seeks a Senior Software Engineer for IR Data Products to build, harden, and operate low-latency production pipelines processing infrared geospatial data. You will ensure robust pipelines, strong observability, and scalable data serving for multiple missions.

The role partners with data scientists and other software teams, focusing on end-to-end data processing from L0 to derived products, including STAC catalog considerations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, or 6+ with MS, or 3+ with PhD.
• Demonstrated experience shipping and operating production Python data pipelines and backend services on AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with a modern workflow orchestrator (e.g., Flyte, Airflow, Prefect, Argo, Dagster, or similar) and containerized deployments.
• Strong fundamentals: production Python code, testing, Git trunk development, code review, CI/CD.
• Experience adding production-grade observability with logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production pipelines for IR data through L1 imagery, stacking, and derived products.
• Optimize infrastructure, services, and algorithms to minimize latency.
• Build geospatial data hosting and serving infrastructure and APIs for internal and external users.
• Develop internal data-visualization and inspection tools for geospatial data.
• Maintain and improve testing and release infrastructure and processes.
• Collaborate with scientists to productionize research code, improving error paths and observability.
• Establish end-to-end observability with structured logging, dashboards, metrics, and alerts.

Skills

Python

AWS Cloud

Geospatial data

Workflow orchestration

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree in a related field

Tools

Flyte

Airflow

Prefect

Dagster

Argo

Grafana

Docker

Job description

Muon Space in Denver seeks a Senior Software Engineer for IR Data Products to build, harden, and operate low-latency production pipelines processing infrared geospatial data. You will ensure robust pipelines, strong observability, and scalable data serving for multiple missions.

The role partners with data scientists and other software teams, focusing on end-to-end data processing from L0 to derived products, including STAC catalog considerations.