Staff Software Engineer – Real-Time Space Telemetry & Cloud

AGILE Space; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) with company match

Health insurance

Job summary

Agile Space Industries in Seattle is seeking a seasoned Staff Software Engineer/Architect to drive vision, design, and delivery of scalable platforms that capture, stream, and analyze hot-fire test data in real time.

You will bridge low-level sensor streams with cloud analytics, lead a cross-functional team, modernize legacy systems into microservices, and own cloud infrastructure using Azure and/or AWS.

Qualifications

• 15+ Years of progressive software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years in a Software Architect role.
• Proven track record of full-lifecycle product development across diverse tech stacks, legacy systems, and modern cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and optimize enterprise-grade services and high-throughput backend APIs to support advanced analysis of high-rate rocket engine telemetry data.
• Design architectures that integrate enterprise/cloud platforms with real-time/embedded/telemetry data-acquisition systems while meeting strict compliance requirements.
• Design systems that allow legacy and modern components to work together to improve operational efficiency for propulsion design, engine testing and manufacturing
• Own end-to-end cloud infrastructure design using Azure and/or AWS. Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Architect robust integration hubs and collaborate with specialized propulsion teams to integrate advanced technologies like predictive embeddings and natural language processing (NLP) into core workflows.
• Build, repair, and optimize continuous integration and deployment pipelines to reduce deployment complexity and improve developer velocity.
• Set up reproducible local development environments (e.g., docker-compose) and maintain high standards for system profiling, automated testing, and observability.
• Serve as the technical owner for core systems, balancing Dev and Ops responsibilities, incident response, and performance monitoring for both software systems and rocket engine hot fire testing.
• Partner closely with test, manufacturing and propulsion engineers to design best-in-class operational systems for the design, test and manufacturing of rocket engines and related components.
• Mentor senior and junior software engineers and provide guidance on technical skills to grow the team.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Next.js

C#.NET

C/C++

Python

Azure

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MS SQL Server

MongoDB

RESTful APIs

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field

Tools

Azure

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Agile Space Industries in Seattle is seeking a seasoned Staff Software Engineer/Architect to drive vision, design, and delivery of scalable platforms that capture, stream, and analyze hot-fire test data in real time.

You will bridge low-level sensor streams with cloud analytics, lead a cross-functional team, modernize legacy systems into microservices, and own cloud infrastructure using Azure and/or AWS.