Data Lake Software Engineer

The Ground Data Systems and Services Organization

The Ground Data Systems and Services Organization is responsible for the architecture, development, deployment, and operation of Ground Data Systems (GDS) across all customer programs. We provide secure, scalable, and standardized solutions for programs across the Commercial Civil Space line of business, serving as a centralized hub of engineering expertise that enables mission success through innovative, cost-competitive, technologies and services.

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform software code, unit test, and integration test development for a full stack data lake product supporting spacecraft test, analysis and operations
• Support software requirements development and formal verification development and tests
• Aid in operational support to spacecraft teams to deployed environments, including internally developed and 3rd party ground software. Includes ensuring real-time dataflows, data management process, querying processes, command building tools, and analysis tools
• Support troubleshooting of deployed ground system hardware, operating systems, and networks, coordinating with System Admins to resolve issues
• Develop web-based RESTful services, GUI interfaces, tools to transform data, automation pipelines for spacecraft operations, and more
• Deploy and integrate software to operational environments, and provide operational support to systems and subsystems engineers within Orion
• Perform tasks in accordance with Orion and Lockheed Martin software development best practices and defined SW development processes
• Investigate opportunities to integrate AI into data processing and data analysis

Desired Skills

• Knowledge of Ceph
• Knowledge of Redis
• Knowledge of S3
• Experience working with spacecraft telemetry
• Experience working with big data and solving big data problems
• Experience performing web application development including RESTful services, web frontends, and integration with webservers, databases, and messaging platforms
• Experience with Python, especially with the Pandas, plotly, and bokeh libraries
• Experience with Jupyter Notebooks for GUI development
• Experience with container and cloud-based technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with networking and installation of cloud systems requiring 24 hour uptime
• Experience working with sysadmins and performing sysadmin tasks
• Experience working under an Agile Framework (Scrum)
• Experience with integration testing
• Experience in developing SW for support of spacecraft operations, including telemetry and data processing, data analysis
• Experience working Ground Data Systems in support of spacecraft operations

Other Important Information

Ability to work remotely
Onsite
Full-time