Software Engineer, Research Infrastructure

United States Digital Space LLC

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 405,000 - 625,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in San Francisco is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Research Productivity organization. You will help build infrastructure that accelerates research, scale systems, and support fast, reliable tooling for researchers.

You will independently scope multi-month projects, drive architectural decisions, and partner with research teams to anticipate changing needs.

Qualifications

Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
Proven ability to scope and deliver complex, multi-month technical projects.
Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on coding ability.
Experience making architectural decisions that teams build on top of.
Excellent written and verbal communication across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and scale infrastructure and systems to support increasing usage and evolving product needs.
Independently scope and lead complex engineering projects from a starting point to a production system.
Drive cross-organizational alignment on technical direction with stakeholders and teams.
Make architectural decisions that shape research infrastructure and tooling across the company.
Partner with researchers to understand workflows and design for changing requirements.
Iterate quickly with pragmatic, first-principles solutions and fast feedback loops.
Take ownership of reliability and scalability as load and complexity grow.
Help set technical standards and mentor other engineers.