A thriving economy in space is needed to make life on Earth more vibrant, sustainable, and equitable. Space technology will enable global access to information, solutions to climate change, answers to global food security, products that transform healthcare, clean energy production, and more. Today, rocket launch options are slow, expensive, and unreliable. Stoke is building the world’s most efficient fully and rapidly reusable rocket designed to fly daily that will radically increase access to space and open up the space economy to safeguard our precious home, Earth.

Description

Reusable launch systems are the key to seamlessly connecting Earth and space. An instrumental ingredient to enabling a rapid launch cadence is the ability to make informed and automated decisions quickly and backed with high quality data. That is our goal for the data team at Stoke, our software empowers our engineers and provides them the ability to automate and improve the efficiency of their day-to-day tasks. As a Backend Data Platform Software Engineer on the Data Team, you will be responsible for contributing to the design and implementation of Stoke’s backend service architecture for data. The ideal candidate will possess solid cloud and computer science fundamentals, experience in backend software development with an emphasis on delivering with quality. They also have the curiosity and desire to learn skills quickly and work collaboratively with a team.

Responsibilities

• Implement and scale the infrastructure supporting Stoke’s Data APIs and Pipelines
• Design and develop robust solutions for monitoring, observability, and deployment of key data services
• Write maintainable code with unit, integration and end to end tests
• Collaborate with developers to ensure designs are implemented accurately and meet design specifications
• Contribute to excellence in operations including maintaining and improving our CI pipeline and independently supporting an on-call shift
• Learning and growing with new technologies and emerging trends

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field / experience
• 3 - 5 years of experience in software development
• Experience with some combination of Python, Rust, Typescript and Postgres
• Experience with core AWS services and infrastructure design including tools like EC2, Fargate, Lambdas, and IAM
• Familiarity with various storage technologies including Parquet, S3, relational, non-relational, and time-series databases (ex: Postgres, InfluxDB etc.)
• Experience with distributed computing, event-driven architectures, and microservices
• Experience with the fundamentals of data processing pipelines and ETL flows
• Experience with infrastructure as Code tools, such as Pulumi or Terraform
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Ability to interpret product requirements and iterate on technical design
• Solid grasp of version control, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Flexible scheduling
• Meaningful equity

Compensation

• Level 2 Range: $117,600 - $176,400
• Level 3 Range: $147,00 - $220,500
• Level 4 Range: $183,700 - $275,600

Our job posts are intentionally written to attract a wide variety of experience levels, and we make decisions about the right fit on a per-candidate basis.

Your actual level and base salary will be decided based on your specific experience and skill level.

Equal Opportunity

The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including with respect to disability and veteran status. It is committed to compliance with all equal opportunity laws, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and Title VII. It does not discriminate on the basis of nationality, race, citizenship, immigration status, or any other protected class when it comes to employment practices, including hiring.

Employment at the Company is contingent upon satisfactory completion of reference and backgroundchecks, and on your ability to prove your identity and authorization to work in the U.S. for the Company. Employees must comply with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services employment verification requirements, and, therefore, they must complete an Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 at the start of employment and re-verify authorization to work periodically.

Separate from this I-9 process, this position entails access to certain technology and technical data that is restricted under U.S. export control laws and regulations. Employment or continued employment may be conditioned on your legal authorization to work with or have access to export control materials as necessary to perform your job.