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About the Job
Element 84 is hiring a Cloud Software Engineer to join our team in building software that uses the latest cloud-based capabilities and technologies for meaningful projects in the public and private sector. You'll join a small team of multidisciplinary designers and engineers working to solve challenging problems in geospatial, healthcare, disaster response, and transportation. We're a small company with big roles, and you'll be able to make an impact on day one.
You'll care about writing. Our team is remote and written communication is essential. In addition to caring about a well-crafted email and a succinct conference abstract, you understand that good writing is good design and engineering.
Please submit your information, resume and cover letter if you are interested in this permanent position in the Washington, DC metro area. Remote candidates welcome.
Qualifications
Here are things we’ve worked on recently to give you an idea of how you might spend your day:
- Paired with our partners to explain how to leverage the capabailities of the cloud on their large-scale workloads
- Troubleshooted why a user is seeing intermittent failures when running their machine learning algorithm
- Peer reviewed tests and code associated with a new API endpoint
- Embraced infrastructure as code for rapid and replicable deployments
Here are the guidelines we're looking at to gauge experience and skillset:
Required Skills:
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- Knowledge of agile development practices using associated project management tools
- Well versed in software engineering methodology and processes
- Experience with secure software development practices and concepts
- Experience with Python or NodeJS, preferably in a serverless cloud context
- Knowledge of relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL
- Experience with testing and CM tools such as git
- Knowledge of cloud architecture including but not limited to networking, data storage, security, cloud specific patterns, and AWS service selection.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science or relevant experience
- Experience: 4-8 years of relevant experience
Desired Skills:
- AWS certification (Associate, Professional, and/or Speciality)
- Experience with large-scale data processing pipelines and data lakes in AWS
- Experience with distributed, loosely-coupled and scalable architectures including serverless architecture and frameworks
- Familiarity with spatial data, reference and projection systems
- Experience with geospatial data and tools (commercial or open source)
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation)
- Experience with Relational and NoSQL database design
- Experience with Cloud security including AWS IAM and VPC concepts
- Experience troubleshooting serverless and container-oriented AWS deployments (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray)
Candidates must have strong technical abilities, excellent communication skills, and a teamwork emphasis. Candidates must also be able to integrate into a highly-skilled Software Engineering team.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. At this time, Element 84 will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
A talented software engineer is needed on the Element 84 team supporting NASA in its mission to provide scientists and other users access to data from NASA’s Earth science missions. As a member of this team, software engineers will build innovative tools allowing scientists and students alike to discover, transform, update and improve the quality of earth science data in the pursuit of solving a wide range of environmental and socio-economic issues. Specifically, this opening is for a software engineer on the NASA EED-2 Cumulus team. Cumulus is an AWS hosted data archive for Earth science records from around the world. The Cumulus team is an established and high performing agile team working in the Scaled Agile Framework methodology.
This is a full time, salaried position. Please submit your information, resume and cover letter if you are interested in this permanent position in the Washington, DC metro area. Remote candidates welcome.
Qualifications
Primary Responsibilities
- Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle from user story generation, through design, development, automated testing and operational support
- Develop new feature ideas to meet the ever evolving needs of our end-users
- Continually help the team grow by sharing new ideas and industry best practices
- Suggest improvements to processes and tools to help the team be more efficient
Here are the guidelines we're looking at to gauge experience and skillset:
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
- Experience with React
- Experience with Front-end design and development
- Experience with UI/UX experience and customer focused interviews
- Ability to work as a member of small team using the Scrum methodology
- Firm commitment to automated testing and continuous integration
- Proponent of continuous improvement; willingness to bring new ideas to the team
- Energetic, self-motivated, team player
- Degree in a technical major, such as Computer Science or Engineering
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with node.js
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) including at a minimum S3, IAM, Lambda and Terraform
- Experience working in a development team using an Agile methodology (preferably Scrum or SAFe)
- Experience with the Atlassian tool suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo)
- Experience developing on MacOS X and deploying to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Experience presenting at technical conferences
This position requires that applicants be a US Citizen must be able to pass a National Agency Clearance with Inquires (NACI) screening.