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# Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

- **Company:** Blacksky Holdings LLC
- **Location:** Tukwila, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $145,000.0 - $165,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, JIRA, Unit Testing, Bash Shell, UClibc (C Standard Library), C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Linux, Embedded Software, Python (Programming Language), Project Management Software, Scrum Methodology, Quick EMUlator (QEMU), Software Requirements Analysis, Software Systems, Toolchain, Cloud Platform System, Gitlab, Git, Yocto, Gitlab-ci, Information Technology, Build Tools, Software Version Control, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18688049/Senior-Software-Engineer-Infrastructure-Washington-Tukwila

## About the Role

The Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer is a hands-on individual contributor role that reports to theManager, Software Test & Infrastructure. You'll be responsible for the end-to-end build systems, configuration, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tool integration. This role also contributes heavily to internal tools including device emulators and emulation environments. Additionally, you'll contribute to software requirements and test plan support for those capabilities and features. As a senior member of the team, you'll make a large business impact across multiple critical programs from design to execution. You'll collaborate across our embedded systems group and work closely with other cross-functional and program team members.

The preferred location is Tukwila, WA with the ability to work in the Tukwila office 1-2 days a week but we may be open to strong remote candidates., * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience

 * At least six (6) years of experience delivering and maintaining commercial/embedded.
software in a production environment.

 * Expertise in engineering clean and maintainable Python and Bash code.
 * Experience with version control and continuous integration.
 * Expertise with developer took chains, build tools and pipeline, such as Git, GitLab, GitLab CI, Jenkins, JIRA.
 * Expertise working with Linux toolchains and environments (Gnu toolchain, QEMU, Buildroot, Yocto).
 * Experience working in Agile/SCRUM environment.
 * Proven experience delivering products on time and on budget.
 * Excellent root cause analysis and problem-solving skills.
 * Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
 * Demonstrated ability to work across teams, skill sets, communication in a diverse environment.
 * Must be able to work with minimal supervision.
 * Due to program requirements, this role requires US citizenship.

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Experience testing and verifying embedded software
 * Bonus if experience building or maintaining hardware for embedded software testing
 * Experience programming in Python
 * Experience programming in C/C++
 * Bonus for ability to debug C/C++ and perform fault analysis
 * Experience maintaining CI/CD systems, or in maintaining infrastructure as code
 * Experience with QEMU and device emulation
 * Experience with buildroot or Yocto

## Description

* Deploy and manage build systems, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS.
 * Drive work to timely completion using task management tools like Jira in an Agile-like environment; participate and lead in status and standup meetings, sprint planning, tasking, etc.
 * Collaborate with other ESG software team members and other cross-functional engineers from multiple disciplines to deliver mission-critical software infrastructure and tools that are on-time and high quality.
 * Ensure that adequate documentation, test, inspection, and analysis is delivered and performed to verify compliance with requirements and other goals.
 * Execute and provide feedback for flight software design, development, unit tests and releases processes.
 * Other job-related duties as assigned.