Senior Software Engineer, Government Programs

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Senior Software Engineer, Government Programs in USA

Muon Space
Full time
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USA
09/29/2026
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Washington, DC

Responsibilities

Design, build, operate, and maintain production data pipelines that process and deliver infrared mission data to government programs.
Own software integration between Muon's data platform and US Government, NRO, and Intelligence Community architectures.
Deploy infrastructure into classified environments while meeting security, compliance, and accreditation requirements.
Own NITF formatting, metadata design, validation, customer iteration, and integration of vendor NITF tooling.
Write production-ready code for data processing and delivery pipelines.
Translate government customer needs into technical requirements and software designs in collaboration with BD and program stakeholders.
Coordinate with software, data platform, systems engineering, instrument engineering, operations, and program management teams.
Ensure the quality, quantitative validation, and integrity of government-facing data products and services.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience or master's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience.
5+ years building production software systems, including data or geospatial pipelines.
Knowledge of US Government software architectures, particularly NRO and broader Intelligence Community systems.
Experience integrating data delivery systems into customer systems, preferably US Government systems.
Experience building and operating high-volume data processing pipelines in commercial or government cloud infrastructure.
Exceptional Python development skills and comfort with adjacent languages and tools used in government software stacks.
Active US security clearance; TS/SCI is strongly preferred.
Preferred experience includes classified-environment deployment, NRO systems, imagery or geospatial data delivery, NITF formatting, GDAL/OGR, rasterio, PROJ, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF, cross-domain solutions, large geospatial datasets, government customers, ATO/RMF processes, and DevSecOps in classified environments.

Benefits

Full-time employees receive equity compensation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
Benefits include three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
Muon is registered and able to hire in AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IA, ID, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VT, VA, and WA.
The position requires access to export-controlled information and applicants must satisfy the stated US person, authorization, or export-license eligibility requirements.

Salary: $192k - $213k/yr

Muon Space

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