Job at a glance
The company is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its ASW Launch Ops team within the Application Software organization. The role focuses on building a greenfield operational platform that turns new markets from ideas into live, revenue-generating networks, covering site acquisition, infrastructure design, permitting, construction execution, deployment tracking, and launch readiness. Working closely with Real Estate, Launch Operations, Construction, Hardware, Flight Operations, Commercial, and Manufacturing, the engineer will replace fragmented manual workflows with a unified, auditable, and automated system.
The position is a high-ownership individual contributor role intended to scale operations from tens of sites to hundreds or thousands, directly affecting the company's ability to expand globally and deliver time-critical supplies. Responsibilities Drive core product domains. Serve as a technical owner for critical capabilities across site acquisition, permitting, infrastructure design, construction execution, deployment tracking, and launch readiness—ensuring their long-term technical health and strategic direction.
Deliver measurable impact. Reduce manual coordination, shorten site-launch timelines, improve launch-date predictability, and give cross-functional leaders clear visibility into execution, dependencies, and risk. Lead technical design. Define the APIs, data models, service boundaries, and architectural patterns that power the platform, with a focus on maintainability, auditability, observability, and pragmatic evolution.
Build durable operational workflows. Translate complex real-world processes into software that supports long-running workflows, government and vendor interactions, physical assets, documents and permits, approvals, dependencies, state transitions, and exception handling. Create a unified operational source of truth. Build resilient integrations across ERP, GIS, document management, permitting, construction and project management, asset management, and internal operational systems.
Design for the people doing the work. Partner directly with users to turn fragmented processes and data into intuitive tools for planning and execution. Prototype workflows, validate them in real operating environments, and drive adoption. Own production excellence. Build and operate business-critical services with meaningful health metrics, SLOs, observability, runbooks, and recovery mechanisms. Participate in on-call, lead incident response when needed, and improve systems through thoughtful postmortems.
Remain deeply hands-on. Ship production code, review critical changes, troubleshoot complex system behavior, and follow major capabilities from discovery through deployment and operation. Lead through influence. Create clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, identify systemic risks and cross-team dependencies, and drive alignment across technical and operational stakeholders. Elevate the team. Mentor peers, raise engineering standards, and strengthen practices in system design, automated testing, CI/CD, operational reliability, and pragmatic delivery.
Requirements Senior individual contribution. At least 5 years of professional experience developing and maintaining full-stack production systems at scale, or demonstrated equivalent technical mastery. Product-minded engineering. You understand user needs, identify root causes, and design pragmatic solutions that balance business value, usability, technical simplicity, and long-term maintainability.
Systems perspective. You can break down ambiguous operational problems, collaborate with stakeholders to define the right solution, and deliver software that improves real-world processes. Strong technical fundamentals. You design maintainable systems, model data thoughtfully, create robust APIs, and make sound tradeoffs across frontend applications, backend services, distributed systems, and infrastructure.
Complex workflow experience. You have modeled long-running workfl