Senior Radar Software Engineer (Remote, TS/SCI)

LeoLabs, Inc.; Denver, Menlo Park (CO, CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful missions

Salary & equity

Space ops access

Job summary

LeoLabs is seeking a Senior Radar Software Engineer to develop, integrate, and optimize software systems supporting radar operations and space domain awareness missions. This role collaborates with radar engineers, data scientists, and software developers to deliver high-performance capabilities meeting mission-critical requirements.

You will join the Cloud Software team to design and deliver mission-critical software powering real-time decisions for protecting and managing satellites in

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance and experience delivering on mission for DOD/IC customers.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time building cloud-based systems at scale.
• Demonstrated experience building, deploying, and operating distributed backend services.
• Experience and enthusiasm with using generative AI for software development.
• Understanding of architecture patterns, service boundaries, message-driven workflows, and API design.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure) and containerized deployments.
• Experience with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL) and message brokers (Kafka, SQS, or similar).
• Experience with observability and CI/CD practices.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work with stakeholders across teams.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations for critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Leverage LeoLabs’ leading dual-use systems to support critical space missions.
• Develop full-stack software for key software initiatives, particularly for DOD/IC contracts
• Participate in stakeholder discussions and translate customer needs into engineering requirements
• Ensure reliability, observability, security, and performance across production systems
• Own critical portions of our systems through the full development lifecycle, including operation, monitoring, and on-call support
• Make use of generative AI to raise the bar on the quality and security of our software

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Cloud-based systems

Distributed backend services

AI in software development

API design

Education

B.S. in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Kafka

SQS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

LeoLabs is seeking a Senior Radar Software Engineer to develop, integrate, and optimize software systems supporting radar operations and space domain awareness missions. This role collaborates with radar engineers, data scientists, and software developers to deliver high-performance capabilities meeting mission-critical requirements.

You will join the Cloud Software team to design and deliver mission-critical software powering real-time decisions for protecting and managing satellites in