Software Engineer, DevOps

Software Engineer

Final date to receive applications: 27 March 2026

Department: Product Development

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Headquarters

Aireon deployed the world’s first global space-based air traffic surveillance system, providing real-time aircraft monitoring capabilities around the world, including over the poles, over the oceans and in remote areas.

Aireon data enables safer, more efficient and more environmentally friendly aviation travel, resulting in significant CO2 emission reductions. More than 20 Air Navigation Service Providers representing more than 40 countries – including NAV CANADA, NATS (UK), Air Traffic and Navigation Services (South Africa), Airports Authority of India (AAI), and ASECNA (Africa) -- rely on Aireon data to navigate aircraft in their airspaces.

We are committed to offering an employment experience and benefits package that enables you and your family to grow with us and to share in our success.

As a Software Engineer, you will participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle which includes estimating, technical design, implementation/development, documentation, testing, deployment, and production operations support of Aireon’s integrated product applications developed for our external and internal customers. As a member working in a team environment, you will take direction from the Product Engineering Lead and/or the Scrum Leader on development and production operations activities.

Aireon is certified to provide surveillance as a service to global customers in a safety-critical industry. This role is essential to the delivery of this service and will be required to reach and maintain an acceptable standard of competency. Aireon will provide initial and ongoing training to support competency standards. This is measured through assessment that is renewable annually.

• Participate in technical planning & requirements gathering phases including Design, code, test, troubleshoot, and document software applications
• Ensure that technical software development process is followed on the project according to internal and industry best practices for software development and operational support
• Document and present design documents for project approval
• Develop and perform unit and integration testing and document results
• Perform peer code reviews
• Define measures and KPI’s
• Utilize key components of Aireon’s cloud ecosystem for the integrated products we launch and operate
• Perform analysis and troubleshooting of processing errors and data inconsistencies and provide solutions
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Understand Data Flows and Common Data Model
• Participate in daily scrum meetings and weekly status meetings to provide a status report of work in progress or accomplished, as well as issues encountered
• Track and maintain task activities using Azure Dev Ops tool
• Support implementation of CI/CD pipelines and test automation, as well as automate operational procedures (Dev Ops)
• Support creation of environments, set up cloud and on-prem infrastructure, and perform integration during product integration, deployments, and system testing
• Help troubleshoot and monitor production systems, and help fix performance issues and/or bottlenecks
• Create and maintain technical documentation following Aireon’s policies and procedures for software engineering
• Adapt and work with team members of various experience levels and locations

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in MIS, Computer Science, Math, Engineering or comparable major
• Passionate Developer with 2 years minimum of application development and testing experience
• At least 2 years of demonstrable programming/testing experience in C#, .NET, and Power Shell scripting
• Experience RESTful APIs and microservices in containerized environments
• Experience using Microsoft’s Azure Cloud to create and deploy applications
• Hold an active Microsoft Azure certification
• Working knowledge of Geospatial data solutions
• Front-End development experience using Frameworks such as Svelte and React
• Two or more years of experience with…