Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company that operates the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform. The Enterprise Services Software Engineer role involves designing, building, and maintaining production-grade software systems, focusing on scalable services and system reliability while collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality enterprise services.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain production‑grade enterprise software using Java, Go, and Python
- Build and enhance distributed, API‑driven microservices and backend systems
- Analyze user and system requirements to create scalable software designs
- Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability across existing systems
- Perform testing, debugging, and issue resolution throughout the development lifecycle
- Document system components, workflows, and code for future maintenance
- Support CI/CD workflows and cloud-based deployments in AWS environments
- Other responsibilities assigned
Skills
- A minimum of ten (10) years of professional software development experience
- Production-grade programming experience in Java; additional languages a plus
- Strong understanding of API-driven architectures and distributed systems
- Experience developing and maintaining microservices in enterprise environments
- Hands-on experience with AWS services and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong ability to troubleshoot complex system behaviors and performance issues
- Ability to clearly communicate and document technical concepts with cross-functional teams
- Strong communication skills for coordinating across engineering, DevOps, and customer teams
- Due to program requirements, this role requires US-born citizenship
- Experience with containerized systems (Kubernetes/OpenShift)
- Familiarity with message-driven architectures (RabbitMQ, Kafka, SNS/SQS)
- Experience with relational databases and schema design (Postgres preferred)
- Experience working in secure, on-prem, or air-gapped environments
- Experience in defense, aerospace, or similar mission‑critical domains
- Experience creating system diagrams, models, or architecture documentation
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
- 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
- Employer matching donations
- Professional development
- Mac or PC? Your choice!
- Awesome swag
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