Principal Software Architect, Ground Systems and Fleet Automation

Job overview

Principal Software Architect, Ground Systems and Fleet Automation is a hybrid role based in Moriarty, NM, with an annual salary range of $165,000–$250,000. Sceye develops stratospheric platforms for communications, imaging, and remote sensing. The architect owns the vision for secure, resilient ground software spanning cloud, edge, and aircraft computing. The role supports the company’s fleet management needs and the evolution toward highly available ground automation for global flight operations.

What you'll do

• Design ground automation and fleet management architecture
• architect geographically replicated systems and automated failover
• lead integration with Higher Airspace Traffic Management APIs
• develop degraded-operations frameworks
• implement Zero-Trust security and PKI
• oversee CI/CD pipelines
• architect sensor fusion and state estimation
• support monitoring requirements and secure remote fleet access.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

principal software architect

ground systems

fleet automation

distributed systems

cloud and edge

kubernetes

microservices

sre

devsecops

zero-trust security

moriarty nm

sceye inc

$165k–$250k/year

hybrid

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Chef-prepared onsite lunches, snacks and refreshments, gym and pickleball court, dog-friendly workplace, medical, dental, vision and disability coverage, and 401(k) with company match.

Why this role

The posting emphasizes distributed systems, Kubernetes, containerization, serverless computing, Protobuf, SRE, DevSecOps, Chaos Engineering, Zero-Trust, and PKI.

About the employer

SCEYE INC is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.