SlipstreamJobs tracks this role from the company's public career site. Apply directly on the employer's site.
Salary: USD 144,000 - 180,000 / annual
Agile Space Industries builds propulsion systems for lunar landers, defense systems, and commercial spacecraft. The company is headquartered in Durango, Colorado, with operations in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Seattle, Washington, and has achieved 40%+ year-over-year growth for three consecutive years.
You will serve as a Staff Software Engineer/Architect driving the vision, design, and execution of scalable enterprise platforms that capture, stream, and analyze real-time hot-fire rocket engine test data. This is a hands-on, mission-critical role bridging low-level sensor streams with high-throughput cloud analytics. You will lead a cross-functional engineering team to transform raw combustion chamber pressures, cryogenic flow rates, and high-frequency vibration data into actionable propulsion insights that power next-generation orbital flight systems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Architecting, building, and optimizing enterprise-grade services and high-throughput backend APIs for advanced analysis of high-rate rocket engine telemetry data
- Designing architectures that integrate enterprise/cloud platforms with real-time, embedded, and telemetry data-acquisition systems while meeting strict compliance requirements
- Owning end-to-end cloud infrastructure design using Azure and/or AWS, driving Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and containerization strategies with Docker and Kubernetes
- Building, repairing, and optimizing continuous integration and deployment pipelines to reduce deployment complexity and improve developer velocity
- Setting up reproducible local development environments and maintaining high standards for system profiling, automated testing, and observability
- Serving as the technical owner for core systems, balancing Dev and Ops responsibilities, incident response, and performance monitoring for both software systems and rocket engine hot-fire testing
- Partnering closely with test, manufacturing, and propulsion engineers to design operational systems for rocket engine design, test, and manufacturing
- Mentoring senior and junior software engineers and providing guidance to grow the team
As an integral contributor during the company's growth stage, you will be eligible to participate in the stock option plan.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years in a Software Architect role
- Proven track record of full-lifecycle product development across diverse tech stacks, legacy systems, and modern cloud platforms
- Expertise in modern programming languages: Node.js, TypeScript, Next.js, C#.NET, C/C++, Python
- Deep expertise with Azure or AWS, Docker, Git/GitHub/GitLab Pipelines, and Kubernetes
- Extensive experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, and MongoDB
- Extensive experience designing and developing microservices, Serverless Architecture, RESTful APIs, OOP/OOAD, Async Messaging (SNS/SQS/RabbitMQ), and Single Sign-On (SSO/IAM)
- Proven ability to act as a high-leverage individual contributor and mentor
- Strong expertise in process improvement, branching/tagging strategies, build/release management, and developer ergonomics
- Strong communication and documentation skills with demonstrated ability to translate complex architectural trade-offs to leadership and stakeholders
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Prior experience in SaaS platforms or real-time storage/telemetry systems
- Experience bridging real-time/test systems with enterprise software
- Experience with real-time embedded systems
- Experience with LabVIEW or other high-rate data acquisition systems
