Senior Software Engineer

Jobtailor; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer in Seattle, WA to design, develop, and deploy mission-critical software infrastructure. You will lead build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based services while collaborating across teams to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery.

The role requires six plus years of production software experience, strong Python/Bash skills, Linux toolchains, and agile experience. US citizenship may be required for some programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Minimum six years delivering and maintaining commercial/embedded software in production.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage build systems, CI/CD pipelines and AWS cloud infra.
• Drive work to completion using Jira in an Agile-like environment; participate in standups and planning.
• Collaborate with ESG software teams and cross-functional engineers on mission-critical infra.
• Ensure documentation, tests, inspections, and analyses meet requirements and goals.
• Contribute to flight software design, development, unit tests and releases processes.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Python

Bash

Agile

Root cause analysis

Written communication

Verbal communication

Collaboration

Teamwork

Leadership

Time management

Adaptability

Education

Bachelors in CS/CE/EE or equivalent

Tools

Git

GitLab

GitLab CI

Jenkins

JIRA

Linux

Gnu toolchain

QEMU

Buildroot

Yocto

Job description

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage build systems, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS.
• Drive work to timely completion using task management tools like Jira in an Agile-like environment; participate and lead in status and standup meetings, sprint planning, tasking, etc.
• Collaborate with other ESG software team members and other cross-functional engineers from multiple disciplines to deliver mission‑critical software infrastructure and tools that are on‑time and high quality.
• Ensure that adequate documentation, test, inspection, and analysis is delivered and performed to verify compliance with requirements and other goals.
• Execute and provide feedback for flight software design, development, unit tests and releases processes.
• Other job‑related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
• At least six (6) years of experience delivering and maintaining commercial/embedded software in a production environment.
• Expertise in engineering clean and maintainable Python and Bash code.
• Experience with version control and continuous integration.
• Expertise with developer tool chains, build tools and pipeline, such as Git, GitLab, GitLab CI, Jenkins, JIRA.
• Expertise working with Linux toolchains and environments (Gnu toolchain, QEMU, Buildroot, Yocto).
• Experience working in Agile/SCRUM environment.
• Proven experience delivering products on time and on budget.
• Excellent root cause analysis and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work across teams, skill sets, communication in a diverse environment.
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision.
• This position may support programs which require US citizenship.

Hard Skills

• Python
• Bash
• version control
• continuous integration
• Linux
• Gnu toolchain
• QEMU
• Buildroot
• Yocto
• Agile

Soft Skills

• root cause analysis
• problem-solving
• written communication
• verbal communication
• collaboration
• teamwork
• leadership
• time management
• adaptabilityself-motivation