Muon Space
Senior Software Engineer, IR Data Products
$192K–$213K
Denver, CO +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- Denver, CO
Remote - Experience
- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years, MS with 6+ years, or PhD with 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree, MS, or PhD.
- Visa sponsorship
- Position requires access to export-controlled information. Applicants must be a U.S. person, eligible to access the information without export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain required authorization.
About the job
Build and operate production pipelines and geospatial data services that process and deliver infrared satellite imagery and derived products to customers.
What you'll do
- Design and operate reliable IR data pipelines from mission captures through imagery, geolocation, orthomosaic tiles, and derived wildfire products.
- Optimize processing and dissemination for lower latency, and build geospatial discovery, serving, visualization, and inspection tools.
- Improve testing, releases, and end-to-end observability; work with data scientists to productionize research code.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years, MS with 6+ years, or PhD with 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
- 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 and containerized deployments.
- Production-grade observability experience, plus working geospatial knowledge including common libraries and formats.
Nice to have
- Experience building and operating a STAC catalog and its ingest and query paths.
- Experience with xarray, Zarr, or NetCDF at scale, geospatial visualization tools, or satellite ground-segment and remote-sensing pipelines.
Pay
$192,000 - $213,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, AWS, Flyte, Airflow, Prefect, Argo, Dagster, GDAL/OGR
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