Principal Software Engineer

Company Overview

Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere in the world. For over 20 years, Iridium’s unique network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things.

At Iridium, we understand the importance of staying connected and the limitations of traditional communications networks. People across the globe, including first responders, humanitarians, global militaries, scientific researchers, and lone workers, as well as ships, aircraft and remote operations all rely on Iridium to stay connected. We take our responsibility for providing these essential communications very seriously and pride ourselves on offering a reliable lifeline when needed. Likewise, Iridium is committed to providing an exciting and innovative workplace, where employees are challenged to think outside the box and collaborate on new, bold ideas and solutions. Our talented teams are passionate about their work and the impact our company makes around the world. Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees to genuinely be their best selves. We are looking for others who want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference in the world.

Position Summary, Job Requirements & Responsibilities

What We’re Looking For:

If you enjoy learning about and working with breakthrough technologies, we want to hear from you! We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Aireon/Iridium HPOC Development team. As the Principal Software Engineer, you will apply advanced expertise in cutting edge technologies to develop and deploy Aireon/Iridium payload ground control software and supporting user service capabilities. You will also provide expertise and peer mentorship within the larger development team to support cross-functional efforts and collaboration across design and full stack development activities.

What You’ll Do:

Lead collaborative efforts and initiatives with the Aireon/Iridium development and engineering team to develop new ground software components founded upon modern languages and deployment techniques

Develop optimized code for both scalability, performance, and availability in support of customer concepts, requirements, and operational use cases

Independently deliver results following Aireon processes for prioritization, configuration management, risk management, and software development processes.

Proactively prototype, build, and test software implementations to roadmap design and implementation concepts to production

Develop software within the Aireon-defined Agile/Scrum framework and DevOps Azure development environment

Plan and execute software releases, providing input into stakeholder/program planning, schedules, and budgets

Confidently present complex information to groups outside of your team through briefings, demonstrations, and documentation covering planned implementation, or issue resolutions, with limited preparation

Utilize your expertise with cloud and on-premises computing to architect and deploy geographically diverse high available micro-service solutions

Leverage knowledge to make enhancements to process/procedure/training documentation and identify technical training needs

Mentor junior level developers in the design and implementation approaches

Deliver constructive, meaningful feedback and proactively offer guidance and knowledge-sharing with team members

Experience & Education Requirements / EEO

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related engineering discipline

10+ years of software programming experience

The ability to create or maintain a high availability architecture

Effective Microsoft Office skills

The ability to learn, work with, and become proficient with open-source packages to leverage your development efficiency

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues clearly and confidently, and recognize and adapt to different communication techniques

Can easily build meaningful relationships with others, including senior leadership outside of your own department, and is comfortable providing constructive feedback to your team members and management

Be able to analyze a situation or problem, generate effective solutions, and see those solutions through to completion

Must possess the creativity and resourcefulness needed to make reliable decisions and determine methods on new assignments

Can thrive in a dynamic environment by handling multiple tasks and managing shifting priorities

Be proactive in sharing knowledge you’ve learned with others

Have a strong work ethic and a positive attitude when taking on ever increasing SW development tasks

Things That Would be Great if You Brought to the Table:

Experience with the following technologies:

Micro services architectures build on ubi8/ubi9 container images

Docker / Podman / Kubernetes (AKS)

C# / C++ / Python / Java / Type Script

NATS.io messaging

Redhat based environments

Azure DevOps development/deployment environment and processes

Helm Charts

Grafana

RESTful / HTTP / WebSockets / XML / JSON

Atlassian Cloud management/software development tools: Jira / Bitbucket / Crucible / Confluence

Role based authentication, secrets management, Azure RBAC

Automated testing frameworks

We’ll also need you to:

Be a U.S. citizen

Ability to work in the office at least 3 days a week to foster collaboration with the team and stakeholders

Work Environment:

This position primarily works in the company office or in a home office. The position is largely sedentary with the majority of the position sitting in a chair and working with a computer. The role uses basic office equipment including a phone, video, computer, keyboard, mouse and printer. For meetings in-person, this position will need to be able stand, walk within the office and climb stairs on occasion.

Iridium is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or status as a protected veteran. EOE of Minorities/Females/Vets/Disability and other protected categories.