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Backend Python (Data Processing) – Software Developer - Maritime Domain Awareness- job post C-CORE
IT / Software / Data Analyst
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Remote / WFH
C-CORE
Job Description
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At C-CORE, we are committed to investing in people and creating a dynamic and rewarding employment experience. We are seeking a Software Developer to join our COREsight Team. This position is based in St. John’s, NL.
If you have a passion for complex design solutions, hands-on development, and contributing to cutting-edge R&D projects from concept to commissioning, this opportunity may be for you. Are you enthusiastic about engineering, attentive to detail, and motivated to support a diverse team of professionals in a dynamic environment? If so, we want you on our team!
About C-CORE
C-CORE conducts R&D and provides research-based advisory services, delivering innovative engineering and technology solutions to national and international clients. For over 50 years, we have built a world-class team of professionals in Remote Sensing and Oceans & Energy. We are global leaders in Earth Observation and geospatial intelligence, with our flagship platform COREsight driving major contracts in defense, environmental monitoring, and advanced R&D.
Position Overview
COREsight is a Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) platform that fuses satellite imagery (SAR, optical), AIS vessel tracking, and RF signal detection into a real-time analyst environment used by government and defence customers, including an active NATO-affiliated deployment. We are scaling COREsight from a single-customer service into a multi-tenant commercial platform, and we need a backend engineer to help harden and scale the processing environment that ingests, correlates, and scores maritime detections around the clock.
You'll work on the pipelines that turn raw satellite tasking, AIS feeds, and RF detections into structured, queryable intelligence — reporting to the Director, COREsight, and working closely with front-end developers building the analyst tools your data powers.
Key Responsibilities
Build and maintain Python data pipelines (Prefect) that ingest satellite imagery, AIS positions, and RF detections and turn them into structured targets
Work on the satellite tasking adapter layer that abstracts multiple providers (RCM, Sentinel-1, ICEYE, and others) behind a unified interface
Integrate new ML capabilities and ensure ML/Ops principles are followed
Improve reliability of ingestion processes
Design and evolve Postgres/PostGIS schemas, including append-only audit tables, to support target lifecycle management (staleness, confidence scoring, correlation)
Contribute to the geospatial data cataloguing layer (STAC/pgSTAC/TiTiler) used to serve imagery and derived products
Work within a GCP/Kubernetes environment; contribute to observability and DevOps best practices
Participate in code review and help build the operational discipline (monitoring, alerting, deployment safety) needed, as we onboard new customers beyond our current NATO-affiliated deployment
Desired Qualifications
3–5 years of professional experience in Python backend development
Experience building or maintaining data pipelines or workflow orchestration (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster, or similar)
Strong SQL skills; experience with Postgres, including working with JSONB and designing for auditability
Comfort working with third-party/external APIs that are unreliable or poorly documented, and building resilience around them (retries, idempotency, race-condition handling)
Ability to work independently against specifications and ask sharp clarifying questions rather than guessing
Eligibility to obtain and maintain Government of Canada Secret-level security clearance
Experience with geospatial data (raster/vector), STAC catalogs, or Earth Observation image processing (asset)
Familiarity with maritime domain concepts (AIS, vessel tracking) or defence/government software environments (asset)
Experience with Kubernetes-based deployments using ArgoCD (asset)
Exposure to real-time or near-real-time data systems (asset)
At C-CORE, we are committed to investing in people and creating a dynamic and rewarding employment experience. We are seeking a Software Developer to join our COREsight Team. This position is based in St. John’s, NL.
If you have a passion for complex design solutions, hands-on development, and contributing to cutting-edge R&D projects from concept to commissioning, this opportunity may be for you. Are you enthusiastic about engineering, attentive to detail, and motivated to support a diverse team of professionals in a dynamic environment? If so, we want you on our team!
About C-CORE
C-CORE conducts R&D and provides research-based advisory services, delivering innovative engineering and technology solutions to national and international clients. For over 50 years, we have built a world-class team of professionals in Remote Sensing and Oceans & Energy. We are global leaders in Earth Observation and geospatial intelligence, with our flagship platform COREsight driving major contracts in defense, environmental monitoring, and advanced R&D.
Position Overview
COREsight is a Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) platform that fuses satellite imagery (SAR, optical), AIS vessel tracking, and RF signal detection into a real-time analyst environment used by government and defence customers, including an active NATO-affiliated deployment. We are scaling COREsight from a single-customer service into a multi-tenant commercial platform, and we need a backend engineer to help harden and scale the processing environment that ingests, correlates, and scores maritime detections around the clock.
You'll work on the pipelines that turn raw satellite tasking, AIS feeds, and RF detections into structured, queryable intelligence — reporting to the Director, COREsight, and working closely with front-end developers building the analyst tools your data powers.
Key Responsibilities
Build and maintain Python data pipelines (Prefect) that ingest satellite imagery, AIS positions, and RF detections and turn them into structured targets
Work on the satellite tasking adapter layer that abstracts multiple providers (RCM, Sentinel-1, ICEYE, and others) behind a unified interface
Integrate new ML capabilities and ensure ML/Ops principles are followed
Improve reliability of ingestion processes
Design and evolve Postgres/PostGIS schemas, including append-only audit tables, to support target lifecycle management (staleness, confidence scoring, correlation)
Contribute to the geospatial data cataloguing layer (STAC/pgSTAC/TiTiler) used to serve imagery and derived products
Work within a GCP/Kubernetes environment; contribute to observability and DevOps best practices
Participate in code review and help build the operational discipline (monitoring, alerting, deployment safety) needed, as we onboard new customers beyond our current NATO-affiliated deployment
Desired Qualifications
3–5 years of professional experience in Python backend development
Experience building or maintaining data pipelines or workflow orchestration (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster, or similar)
Strong SQL skills; experience with Postgres, including working with JSONB and designing for auditability
Comfort working with third-party/external APIs that are unreliable or poorly documented, and building resilience around them (retries, idempotency, race-condition handling)
Ability to work independently against specifications and ask sharp clarifying questions rather than guessing
Eligibility to obtain and maintain Government of Canada Secret-level security clearance
Experience with geospatial data (raster/vector), STAC catalogs, or Earth Observation image processing (asset)
Familiarity with maritime domain concepts (AIS, vessel tracking) or defence/government software environments (asset)
Experience with Kubernetes-based deployments using ArgoCD (asset)
Exposure to real-time or near-real-time data systems (asset)
