senior radar software engineer
- Salary
- $4.1K–$7.2K/moUSD per month
- Hiring from
- United States
- Work type
- Remote
- Posted
- Sep 27, 2026
Senior Software Engineer (Radar)
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Location: Remote, with candidates required to be located in the San Francisco Bay Area or Denver, CO area. Active US TS/SCI clearance and periodic SCIF access are required.
Salary: Up to $194,700 base salary, plus bonus, stock options, and benefits.
Company
hirify.global develops radar-powered space domain awareness and AI-enabled analytics systems for tracking objects in low Earth orbit and supporting satellite operations.
What you will do
- Develop full-stack software for mission-critical space and defense initiatives, particularly US Department of Defense and Intelligence Community contracts.
- Build and operate distributed backend services, high-volume data pipelines, APIs, and user interfaces.
- Support orbit maintenance, object tracking, customer analytics, radar network tasking, and AI/ML model training workflows.
- Translate stakeholder and customer needs into engineering requirements and participate in design discussions.
- Ensure reliability, observability, security, and performance across production systems.
- Own services through the full development lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, operations, and on-call support.
Requirements
- Active US TS/SCI clearance and experience delivering missions for DoD/IC customers.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building cloud-based systems at scale.
- Experience building, deploying, and operating distributed backend services using Python, Go, or a similar language.
- Knowledge of architecture patterns, service boundaries, message-driven workflows, API design, cloud environments, and containerized deployments.
- Experience with relational databases, message brokers, observability, CI/CD, and on-call operations.
Nice to have
- Production frontend development with TypeScript, JavaScript, or comparable web technologies.
- Experience deploying into US federal systems and using Kubernetes in cloud environments.
- Background in mathematics, physics, AI/ML, or orbital mechanics.
- Experience operating high-availability or mission-critical systems.
Culture & Benefits
- Work on complex space, security, and satellite operations missions with real-world impact.
- Flexible remote and hybrid opportunities across the workforce.
- Unlimited paid time off for most roles.
- Competitive salary, bonus, equity, and comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Access to commercial space operations and defense innovation.
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