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Senior Software Engineer, IR Data Products

Muon Space· Engineering - Software
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Hybrid (Denver, CO)$192k - $213kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior engineer to design, build, and operate production pipelines and services for Muon Space's infrared (IR) data products, with a focus on robust processing pipelines, low latency, observability, and geospatial data serving. Hybrid role in Denver, CO, collaborating with Data Scientists and other software teams to productionize research code and deliver calibrated imagery and derived products at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate the production pipelines that process IR Mission captures through L1 imagery, multispectral stacking, geolocation, orthomosaic tiles, hotspots, and derived wildfire products.
  • Optimize pipeline infrastructure, services, and algorithms to minimize latency.
  • Design and build geospatial data discovery and data-serving infrastructure and APIs used by internal product developers and downstream customers.
  • Design and build internal data-visualization and inspection tools for geospatial data.
  • Maintain and improve the software testing and release infrastructure and processes.
  • Partner with Remote Sensing Data Scientists to productionize research code — hardening error paths, adding tests, adding observability, and making it re-runnable and idempotent.
  • Build observability of the IR data pipeline end-to-end: structured logging, dashboards, metrics and alerts.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 8+ years or MS with 6+ years or PhD with 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated experience shipping and operating production Python data pipelines and backend services on AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience with a modern workflow orchestrator (e.g., Flyte, Airflow, Prefect, Argo, Dagster, or similar) and containerized deployments.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals: production Python code, unit and integration testing, Git-based trunk development, code review, CI/CD, etc.
  • Demonstrated experience adding production-grade observability to a system: structured logging, metrics, dashboards, alerts, and on-call ownership.
  • Working geospatial domain knowledge — hands-on experience with geospatial libraries (e.g., GDAL/OGR, rasterio, PROJ, shapely) and formats (e.g., GeoTIFF, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF, NetCDF, Zarr, HDF).
  • Ability to work with a distributed, interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and program management.

Skills

Required:PythonWorkflow orchestrationGeospatial processingObservabilityTests and CI/CDGeospatial data serving

Benefits

  • equity grant
  • comprehensive benefits package
  • medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k retirement plan
  • short & long term disability and life insurance
  • three weeks paid vacation
  • 12 paid holidays
  • unlimited sick time
  • paid parental leave
Last updated Oct 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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