Ground Software Engineer - Core
Job description
Loft Orbital is hiring a Software Engineer for the Core team within Ground Platform to build shared backend services, workflow automation, AI tooling, and platform infrastructure with a focus on observability and reliability. The role also offers optional participation in spacecraft operations through SatDevOps rotations.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Evaluate and implement new technologies and software patterns that propagate to the entire Loft's software stack
- Lead the creation and evolution of Loft's AI tooling for development, review, and spacecraft anomaly investigation
- Develop central ground platform functionalities such as workflow automation, microservice inter-communication, and metrics
- Take responsibility for the reliability and performance of Loft's ground platform infrastructure, including message queues, CI/CD, and observability
- Have the opportunity to take part in spacecraft operations through SatDevOps rotations, occasionally helping investigate anomalies and supporting real-time incident response when needed
- Collaborate with software engineers and satellite operators from all over the company to support and foster consistent, maintainable, and performant software solutions
What we're looking for
- Solid backend software development experience
- Hands-on knowledge of deployment and Infrastructure as Code
- Ability to define and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Experience working with Kubernetes
Nice to have
- Python development, particularly with Django
- Knowledge of GraphQL and Graphene
- Experience with message queues and streaming technologies (NATS)
- Knowledge of DevOps and observability tools (Helm, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, etc)
- Familiarity with AI tooling
- Frontend development with Vue and Web Components
Your team
Core team within Ground Platform
The team develops the core capabilities that support Loft's ground platform, improve development workflows, and ensure platform reliability.
Benefits
- Equity, we want you to have an active role in our success
- Up to 35 days of Paid Time Off (vacations & RTT) and flexible working hours, we want you to be at your best
- Health and life insurance, we care about your health
- Lunch Vouchers, because let's be honest, we love food! (we even have a slack channel about it #loft-gourmand)
- Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse to learn from our differences
- Company and team off-sites and many other events to work & celebrate together
- Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable
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About Loft Orbital
Space Made Simple.
Loft integrates, launches, and operates spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more. Leveraging existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown, Loft's flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.
Mission
Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.
Key facts
- 2017
- Space infrastructure
- Founded in 2017
- More than 30 missions flown
- Growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027
- Offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France
What they value
- Respectful debate
- People who aren't afraid to challenge assumptions