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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Remote - **Company:** BlackSky Technology Inc. - **Location:** Herndon, VA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $175,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Computer Vision, Cloud Computing, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Relational Databases, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Machine Learning, Cloud Services, Service Design, ReactJS, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Machine Learning Operations, Front End Software Development, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Web Api, Microservices - **Published:** June 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/staff-sw-engineer-full-stack/9619208 ## About the Role This position is a critical element of the BlackSky labs engineering team and is expected to work closely with the image operations, satellite operations, and machine learning teams to ensure success. The ideal candidate has geospatial software engineering, database, user interface, cloud infrastructure, cloud microservices, operations, testing experience; familiarity with satellite imagery or similar datasets; success working in an agile development environment; proficiency with AWS / Kubernetes; and experience with on-prem / airgapped deployment environments. Additionally, the ideal candidate has demonstrated the ability to manage their own efforts over a broad scope of work as an independent contributor. Finally, the candidate should be an independent thinker with the demonstrated ability and willingness to lean in to learn new tools, technologies, and approaches to solve new problems. This role reports to the Manager of the BlackSky labs team and while we would prefer this position to be local to our Herndon, VA office, we are open to candidates in certain remote states., * Minimum of eight years of hands-on experience as a software engineer with at least three years focused on full stack development. * Bachelor's Degree or higher in one of the following fields: computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, or another computational field or equivalent experience (four years equivalent for bachelor's degree). * Demonstrated experience designing and building scalable production software solutions and architectures, especially for machine learning or image processing. * Strong Python3 proficiency or GO proficiency and experience writing production software for data ETL, REST APIs, micro-services, geospatial, or data analytics, and cloud deployment. * Hands on experience with cloud services such as AWS EKS, S3, EC2, Aurora / RDS, SQS, SNS, Batch, etc. * Experience writing software to integrate with third-party APIs, performing data ETL, and managing complex data at scale in relational data stores. * Strong React or other UI framework proficiency, with an understanding of REST and frontend service design and integration. * Strong ability to communicate concepts and software system results with customers, management, and the technical team, highlighting actionable insights. * Due to program requirements, candidates must hold US citizenship., * Over ten years of hands-on experience as a software engineer. * Advanced degree in a relevant field of study. * Experience with machine learning or computer vision. * Experience with on-prem or airgapped deployments. * Experience with remote sensing datasets and image preprocessing and manipulation methods for sensors such as Sentinel, LandSat, BlackSky, Airbus, Planet, or WorldView. * Experience with Infrastructure solutions including (scaling and deploying models in the cloud using AWS solutions such as Kubernetes, ClearML, Nvidia Triton, Kubeflow, Torch Serve, Argo, etc.). ## Description BlackSky is looking for a Staff Full-Stack Engineer to support the production AI/ML products, bridging GIS and machine learning workflows with dynamic web interfaces. This role requires expertise in Python/Go microservices, Cloud Infrastructure, Relational Databases, and React UI/UX to deliver geospatial intelligence. 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