What You'll Do - Review and understand current Ground stack
- Understand and walk through current mission workflows
- Identify any gaps and potential technical debt
- Train on console for upcoming mission operations
What you will own in the next 30 days:
- Will have chosen an area to become a code owner in
- Help create automated tooling to improve ground procedures
- Help enforce and improve culture around code quality and standards
- Mentor junior engineers
- Be an advocate and example of testing and integrating work into other areas in the company
- Help give technical expertise to fill out user stories and epics
What We Value:- System level thinker understanding cloud based scalable micro service systems
- Strong desire to build and design something from the ground up
- Able to understand and communicate customer needs into actionable items
- Someone who strives for clarity and understanding, but can make do without perfect requirements
- An operations first developer
- A strong executor and someone that excels in producing valuable and reliable code
- A passion for automation and creating systems that streamline operations
- Reliability-first mindset
Your Ideal Background:Required:
- Looking for someone with 3-8 years of cloud based scalable micro service architecture
- Experience owning services in production
- Experience supporting mission critical services
- Experience in creating high reliability production-critical systems
- Familiarity working with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure proper feature creation
- Deep technical fluency in cloud, backend, frontend, and streaming systems
- AWS Suite (EKS, MSK, Timestream, S3, Batch, Event Bridge), Python, C++, React, Tailwind, Redis, Kafka, influx, QuestDB, MongoDB, git, CI/CD, Docker, K8
- Minimum bachelor's degree in computer science or other related STEM fields
- Master's degree preferred
Compensation and Benefits:Your base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. The anticipated salary range for this role is $120,000 - $165,000 annually.
Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at Katalyst. You will also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of the Employee Stock Option and Equity Plan, as well as a relocation bonus and other discretionary bonuses. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, and unlimited Paid Time Off.
