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Department/Team: Engineering
Clearance Requirement: Not Required - Must be eligible
Location: Hybrid - Chantilly, VA / Herndon, VA / Washington, DC Metro Area Employment Type: Full-time, Salaried
Overview
We’re seeking a Platform Engineer with a blend of strong software engineering expertise and some data science acumen to join our team. This role requires someone who enjoys working on distributed microservice architectures, finding ways to improve the system’s robustness, stability, and performance, and optimize areas such as geospatial data storage and query performance at scale.
Key Responsibilities
● Design, build, and maintain platform services in a microservices environment
● Develop and optimize event-driven architectures using message queuing systems
● Implement and maintain gRPC and HTTP API surfaces
● Design data processing pipelines and analytics infrastructure
● Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance and reliability
● Containerize applications and manage container orchestration
Required Technical Skills
● Strong proficiency in Python and at least one other programming language
● Understanding of HTTP API and RPC patterns
● Experience with gRPC and protocol buffers
● Experience with PostgreSQL and DuckDB (configuration, usage, optimization)
● Understanding of event-driven architectures (configuration, pitfalls, scaling challenges)
● Knowledge of RabbitMQ or other message broker
● Understanding of microservices design patterns and distributed systems
● Some experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
Qualifications
● Strong software engineering fundamentals (design patterns, testing, version control)
● Experience with monitoring and observability tools
● AWS experience is a nice-to-have
● Understanding of data lake architectures and storage optimization patterns
● Understanding of security practices in distributed systems
● Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
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Department/Team: Engineering
Clearance Requirement: Not Required - Must be eligible
Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time, Salaried
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and build high-performance real-time data platforms that power analytics, machine learning, and operational intelligence. This role focuses on streaming data pipelines, distributed processing, and large-scale event data systems.
You will work on building and operating low-latency data pipelines using technologies such as Apache Flink, Apache Druid, Kafka, and modern data infrastructure, enabling real-time insights across large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
This role requires strong experience in stream processing architectures, distributed systems, and scalable data infrastructure.
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Location: Hybrid - Chantilly, VA / Herndon, VA / Washington, DC Metro Area
Travel: 25–40%
Clearance: Active Secret required; TS/SCI strongly preferred
Employment Type: Full-Time, Salaried
ABOUT US
Orbital Insight, a wholly owned subsidiary of Privateer Space, leverages geospatial data, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence to transform vast volumes of data into actionable intelligence for government and commercial customers. Our platforms fuse data from land, sea, air, and space to enable mission-critical insights across defense, intelligence, maritime security, and infrastructure monitoring.
Through technologies such as TerraScope and other data fusion platforms, we deliver operational awareness and analytics that support national security missions including maritime domain awareness, autonomous systems, and multi-INT analytics.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a Business Development Manager focused on the U.S. Navy ecosystem, with particular emphasis on:
This role will lead growth initiatives across Navy and Marine Corps stakeholders, identifying and shaping opportunities that leverage Privateer and Orbital Insight capabilities in maritime domain awareness, autonomous systems, and geospatial intelligence analytics.
The BD Manager will develop and execute capture strategies, build customer relationships, and coordinate across internal teams to position the company for program wins.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Business Development & Pipeline Development
Customer Engagement
Opportunity Shaping & Capture
Strategic Growth
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
A high-energy business development professional with a deep understanding of the Naval innovation and acquisition ecosystem and a proven track record growing defense technology programs.
Successful candidates will demonstrate:
REQUIREMENTS
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This position is subject to U.S. export control regulations. Only U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, naturalized citizens, and lawful permanent residents (Green Card holders) are eligible for consideration. Individuals requiring visa sponsorship or working under a temporary visa status (e.g., H-1B, L-1, F-1, OPT, CPT, etc.) are not eligible for this role.
As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in integrating security practices into the DevOps pipeline. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing infrastructure and security processes that ensure our applications are secure, scalable, and highly available. You will work closely with development, operations, and security teams to automate and streamline our operations and processes.
Compensation:
$180,000–$200,000 base salary, plus equity, benefits, and other perks.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Skills and Experience:
Preferred Qualifications:
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About Privateer 🌴👩🏻🚀🌴 and Orbital Insight 🛰️🌎📈💡
Founded by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, tech entrepreneur Alex Fielding, and UT Austin Professor Dr. Moriba Jah, Privateer is pioneering a satellite sharing economy to ensure a sustainable future in space.
Our Wayfinder platform helps satellite operators safely navigate increasingly crowded orbital highways, while our TerraScope application (part of our recent acquisition of Earth analytics leader Orbital Insight) utilizes advanced AI modeling to expand access to Earth observations from space.
Together, these technologies aim to eliminate redundant hardware in orbit, enhance satellite safety, and promote efficient use of space resources.
About the Role 👩💼🧑💼👨💼
We believe that great talent is always welcome, which is why we invite you to submit your resume, even if we don’t have an active opening that matches your experience. We’d love to learn more about you and how you could contribute to our mission. Your skills and passion may be the perfect fit for future opportunities.
Successful Candidates 👩🚀🧑🚀👨🚀
First and foremost, successful candidates will be a fit for our unique culture. From our founders and executives down through the entire organization, we are passionate about our work and about having fun doing it.
When we’re looking for new members of our crew, we’re looking for these qualities (in no particular order):
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