Senior Software Engineer

About Skylo

Skylo is a global Non-Terrestrial Network service provider based in Mountain View, CA, offering a service that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites.

Skylo’s direct-to-device service is now live on millions of activated devices across five continents, with more than 60 million square kilometers of coverage, in partnership with multiple satellite operators, mobile network operators (MNOs), Tier-1 chipset makers, and OEMs. Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo provides anywhere, anytime connectivity solution that seamlessly roams between terrestrial and satellite networks. Our focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors and connected workflows across three main verticals: mass-market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT.

This role is located Bangalore, India where we are onsite 3 days a week in office.

Summary Of How You Will Impact Skylo

Skylo is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to help fulfill our mission of making satellite connectivity available to all. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the design, architecture, and implementation of the critical services of Skylo’s Connectivity Platform. You will be instrumental in creating best-in-class software infrastructure solutions, combining your deep technical knowledge with a passion for excellence. Your work will directly support the development of cloud services from ingesting and processing heavy data streams on the backend. You will also contribute to building cloud systems that are resilient, secure, and address data privacy.

How You Will Contribute

• Contribute to the design, build, and optimize high-throughput, real-time data pipelines to process and aggregate network and system telemetry.
• Work closely with engineers, implementing best practices and actively engaging in design and code reviews.
• Design and develop distributed application services, microservices, and scalable database systems and contribute to architectural decisions for our observability platform to ensure it is scalable, reliable, and maintainable
• Take ownership of features, from backend API design and database modeling to frontend implementation and user experience.
• Work with a diverse set of technologies, including backend languages (Python, Go, Java), messaging brokers (Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub), and databases (SQL and NoSQL).
• Define, design, and implement REST APIs, building out Swagger UI and Postman collections.
• Contribute to the design and development of distributed application services, microservices, and scalable database systems. You will also define, design, and implement REST APIs.
• Integrate with third-party application systems using REST APIs and/or messaging queues.
• Define and execute component test scenarios and test cases, including unit testing, code coverage, and API test automation.
• Participate in build and deployment processes using tools like Jira, Jenkins, GCR/GKE.
• Enforce security best practices in both software development and deployment.
• Drive observability using Prometheus and log/data collectors for monitoring and diagnostics.
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies to improve system performance and developer productivity.
  
  

What We Look For

• 5-8 years of experience in professional software development with a focus on object-oriented programming (OOP) and distributed microservices.
• Bachelor's and / or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Wide-ranging experience with cloud technologies and tech stacks, with the ability to resolve complex issues creatively and effectively.
• Proficiency in Python, Java or/and Go programming languages.
• Proven experience designing, building, and scaling data pipelines.
• Expertise in query optimization, partitioning, and performance tuning in SQL and big data query engines.
• Strong hold on dealing with metrics, logs, and traces from distributed systems using Open Telemetry, Prometheus, and data collector frameworks.
• Experience developing microservices using the Spring-Boot framework or Go language frameworks.
• Prior working experience with messaging brokers like Kafka or GCP Pub/Sub to build event-driven microservices architectures.
• Experience with REST API and gRPC design.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems for massive horizontal scaling.
• Working experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, and GCP.
• Solid understanding of database technologies, including Redis, SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL), and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to lead technical discussions.
  
  

What We Offer

With employees working across three continents, Skylo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. Our worldwide and inclusive culture encourages a flexible approach to work, and we also offer an attractive range benefits such as:

• Competitive compensation packages including a stock option based equity program
• Comprehensive benefits plan
• Monthly allowances for wellness and education reimbursement
• A generous time off policy, holidays, and the opportunity to temporarily work abroad
• Once in a lifetime opportunity to be a part of developing and running world’s first commercial, live direct-to-device satellite network and service
• Access to world-class team and talent across tech domains: software, hardware, chipsets, telecom, satellite and network virtualization
• Open, transparent, inclusive culture that blends the Silicon Valley, Nordic and South Asia characteristics
  
  

EEO Statement

Skylo is an equal-opportunity employer and we celebrate diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, parent or caregiver status, political affiliation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability.