Principal Software Engineer

Company Overview

Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere in the world.   For over 20 years, Iridium’s unique network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things.

 

At Iridium, we understand the importance of staying connected and the limitations of traditional communications networks. People across the globe, including first responders, humanitarians, global militaries, scientific researchers, and lone workers, as well as ships, aircraft and remote operations all rely on Iridium to stay connected. We take our responsibility for providing these essential communications very seriously and pride ourselves on offering a reliable lifeline when needed.  Likewise, Iridium is committed to providing an exciting and innovative workplace, where employees are challenged to think outside the box and collaborate on new, bold ideas and solutions.  Our talented teams are passionate about their work and the impact our company makes around the world.  Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees to genuinely be their best selves.   We are looking for others who want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference in the world.

What We’re Looking For:

If you are experienced in the development of embedded software solutions and providing design guidence to software development engineers, then you will be excited about the Principle Software Development Engineering position with our Gateway Mobile Product Development (GWMPD) team. As a Principle GWMPD Engineer, you’ll be responsible for providing technical leadership and guidance to junior engineers in all aspects of software development including design, implementation, documentation and testing.  In this role, you will be tasked primarily to evaluate all existing and newly proposed gateway software features and use your expertise to determine solutions, estimates and consult with various stakeholders to help identify the optimal solutions. You will succeed in this role if you are able to effectively manage assignments and workload for yourself and work closely with other members of the gateway software development team to help them design, build and deploy new products in the Iridium Gateway.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide technical leadership/oversight and mentoring to the software development team
• Be accountable for architectural and design direction
• Maintain code quality by ensuring the software engineers are adhering to good development practices and all aspects of the software development lifecycle
• Play a key role in driving improvements to develop, improve or redesign GWMPD processes, tools, and methodologies
• Manage multiple activities/tasks including those with cross-functional teams
• Establish a strong working relationship with cross-functional teams: Line of Business, Product Team, System Engineering, GW Engineering, Opearations and Customer Care
• Identify risks and develop mitigation efforts
• Contribute to the shaping of the Commercial GW roadmap through analysis of evolution and modernization strategies, and working with external vendors to achieve these
• Develop software, working through backlog requests for various Iridium Commercial Gateway components and following the team’s 'Definition of Done' to ensure each task meets customer expectations
• Play a key role in ensuring proper Change Control and Configuration Management processes are being followed by the gateway development team
• Foster a collaborative work environment including encouraging the team to give their best

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer system engineering, or related engineering field
• 10+ years of relevant experience in development of embedded solutions and providing specifications for development
• Proficiency in C++ with 5+ years of experience developing software tools and applications
• Proficiency in developing software for Linux/Redhat Operating Systems and using Databases such as MySQL
• Knowledge of and experience with all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle process
• Expertise with the Microsoft Windows and Office product suite
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues clearly and confidently, and recognize and adapt to different communication techniques
• Can easily build meaningful relationships with others, including senior leadership outside of your own department, and comfortably provide constructive feed