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Software Engineer – Geospatial Algorithms

Company

aqua IT

Job Details

Responsibilities:

  • Demonstrated familiarity with software engineering practices specifically applied to geospatial data processing and the development of spatial algorithms at scale
  • Strong understanding of vector geospatial data products and their associated processing pipelines, including ingestion, transformation, and quality validation workflows
  • Thorough understanding of modern software engineering principles and cloud-native environments, with the ability to design and deploy scalable, production-grade geospatial solutions

Qualifications/Skills Required:

  • TS/SCI with CI Poly required 
  • Must be willing to work in SCIF daily or as needed
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with cloud-first development approach
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS CDK for Infrastructure as Code
  • 3+ years building complex, reusable CDK constructs and stacks
  • Proficiency in async programming and performance optimization* 3+ years implementing multi-environment deployment strategies using CDK
  • 5+ years of advanced Python development experience
  • 4+ years of data engineering experience
  • ETL/ELT pipeline development using AWS services
  • Experience with data lakes, data warehousing, and analytics platforms
    • Real-time data processing and streaming architectures
  • 3+ years with AWS cloud-native services
    • Advanced knowledge of Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS
    • Experience with data services: RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, S3, Athena
    • Container orchestration with ECS, Fargate, or EKS
  • Strong problem-solving abilities with proven track record of resolving complex technical challenges

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on geospatial data processing and spatial algorithm development
  • Hands-on experience working with vector geospatial data products and familiarity with common processing workflows, including ingestion, transformation, and quality validation
  • Strong command of modern software engineering principles and cloud-native environments, with demonstrated ability to build and deploy scalable, production-grade geospatial solutions

2026-05-18
Code
AQI-000280
Type
Full-Time
City, State
Herndon OR Springfield, Virginia
Country
United States