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Staff Software Engineer, IR Data Products

Muon Space· Engineering - Software
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Denver, CO$216k - $239k + equityfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Architecture and technical-leadership role focusing on multi-mission IR data systems (pre-processing, processing, routing, delivery, geospatial storage, and MLOps) for Muon Space’s infrared missions. Hybrid on-site in Denver, CO (3 days/week).

Responsibilities

  • Own key aspects of the architectural design for the multi-mission, multi-customer IR data systems in partnership with the Principal Software Engineer: ingest, pre-processing, orchestration, storage and catalog, delivery, and the platforms that run all of the above.
  • Lead the design and implementation of critical capabilities for Muon's IR missions from problem framing and design document through rollout, adoption, and operational hand-off.
  • Own key aspects of the technical roadmap to low-latency processing including: structural designs such as event-driven microservices, cloud infrastructure design and optimization, and algorithmic optimizations.
  • Set direction for geospatial data storage, cataloging, and serving at scale — including tradeoffs across formats, tile stores, STAC catalogs, bucket and IAM topology, and reprocessing / versioning strategy.
  • Design and build the MLOps foundations for derived IR products — model packaging and versioning, experiment tracking, GPU-backed training and inference, A/B evaluation harnesses, and reproducibility — so ML-driven products can move from research to production on a well-paved path.
  • Set software standards for the team — codebase organization, release engineering, CI, testing, documentation, code review, observability, and operational excellence — and raise the bar on how the team reasons about failure modes, immutability, idempotency, and reprocessing.
  • Provide technical leadership across functions: coordinate design and implementation with Product, Program Management, Business Development, and other Software teams; represent IR Data Products in cross-functional design reviews and design processes; and turn ambiguous requirements (latency budgets, compliance constraints, new missions, new customers) into concrete engineering plans.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years or MS with 8+ years or PhD with 5+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated success as a technical leader on production data platforms at scale — with the designs and rollouts to show for it.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and operating production data pipelines on AWS with a modern workflow orchestrator (e.g., Flyte, Airflow, Prefect, Argo, or equivalent).
  • Track record of leading multi-quarter architectural initiatives that spanned multiple services or teams.
  • Experience with latency optimization: measurement discipline, benchmarking, per-stage instrumentation, right-sizing, fan-out, caching, async I/O, and knowing when the answer is structural rather than algorithmic.
  • Strong operational mindset: observability, SLOs, on-call, safe deploys, hotfix protocols, immutability, and reproducibility.
  • Excellent technical writing and cross-functional communication — comfortable driving alignment across engineers, scientists, PMs, and adjacent platform / flight-software teams.

Skills

Required:Architecture design and leadershipLow-latency processingGeospatial data storage and servingMLOps foundations

Benefits

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

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