Software Engineer (CMR Developer)

Simple Technology Solutions is looking for a Software Engineer (CMR Developer)  to add to our team.

Quick Position Overview:

• US Citizenship is required
• A bachelor's degree in technical major is required
• A minimum of 3 years' position related experience is required

The role:

STS is looking for a Software Engineer that will work with an amazing team of engineers, on the EED-3 program, that supports NASA Earth Science (ESDIS) in its mission to provide scientists and other users access to data from NASA’s Earth science missions. More specifically, you will be working with the Common Metadata Repository (CMR) team. The CMR is an AWS hosted scalable repository for ~500M earth science metadata records from around the world.  It receives approximately 3M queries per week and is envied for its speed and reliability. As a Software Engineer and a member of the CMR team, you 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. 

The Software Engineer (CMR Developer) at STS will:

• 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

Education and Experience:

Required

• Must have a Bachelor’ degree in a technical major, such as engineering or computer science, and 3 years of software  development lifecycle (SDLC) experience
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including compute, storage, and data services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, and RDS
• Full life cycle Software design and development experience on large/complex n-tier client/server applications
• Experience with programming / scripting languages, such as Python and Java, within an Agile development environment
• Ability to obtain Government Security Clearance

Desired Qualifications: 

• Experience with Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML).
• Experience with the Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK) stack.
• Experience with a functional programming language, such as Clojure. 
• Experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
• Experience using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) OS.
• Experience using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology.
• Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket).
• Experience presenting at technical conference

Wondering if you may qualify for a Government Security Clearance? Click HERE to find 5 questions you should ask yourself before applying for a job requiring a clearance!

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