Software Developer Co - op/Intern responsible for developing NSP platform features in a team setting. Preparing documentation and ensuring quality software delivery before QA handoff.
About the role
- Software Developer in Test ensuring quality and reliability of Telesat's satellite communications software products. Involving software testing and integration into development pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Java (Java 17+) services within a distributed, event-driven architecture using Spring Boot.
- Implement asynchronous workflows and event processing using Azure Service Bus and Event Hub where appropriate.
- Package, deploy, and operate microservices on Kubernetes using Helm across multiple environments (dev/test/prod).
- Contribute to service decomposition, domain boundaries, and API design with a focus on latency, throughput, reliability, and backward compatibility.
- Design and implement reliable service-to-service communication using REST, gRPC, and messaging protocols.
- Support protocol-agnostic ingress suitable for long-lived or reconnect-sensitive traffic.
- Help optimize networking concerns (TCP behavior, connection pooling, backoff, circuit breaking) for high-scale traffic.
- Contribute to multi-region resiliency design, including regional failover/failback mechanics, validation steps, and automation guardrails.
- Embed production readiness into services: SLIs/SLOs, golden signals, standardized observability, failure-mode analysis, and post-incident architectural corrections.
- Participate in and improve end-to-end readiness drills: failure scenario walkthroughs, runbook execution, and post-drill improvements.
- Design for resilience via health checks, fault management, monitoring, rate limiting, bulkheads, and recovery-on-failure patterns.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 5-9 years of relevant experience in software development and testing
- Experience in Python and/or Java programming language
- Experience with one or more of the following technologies: gRPC, REST, Message Queues, Databases, SQL, Azure, etc.
- Experience working with multiple test automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium Web Driver, Katalon, Watir, Cucumber and others
- Extensive experience with GitLab for version control and CI/CD processes and Git Runners for test automation
- Solid understanding of Linux environments and command-line tools
- Experience with Linux clusters and cluster job managers
- Experience with agile development
- Experience with Matlab language and programming platform is considered an asset
Benefits
- At Telesat, we take pride in being an equal opportunity employer that values equality in the workplace. • We are committed to providing the best candidate experience possible including any required accommodations at every stage of our interview process. • All qualified applicants that have been selected for an interview that require accommodations, are advised to inform the Telesat Talent team accordingly. • We will work with you to meet your needs. • All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential.
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