Senior Space Mission Software Engineer
Varda Space Industries9 hours ago
El Segundo, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$169k - $216k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain high-reliability services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding.
- Build operator-grade mission-control UIs and dashboards for integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.
- Create flight-software simulations, device emulators, scenario-based automated tests, and test harnesses.
- Design and productionize mission-platform tooling, including service templates, artifact management, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and self-service workflows.
- Develop deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks, including safe rollouts, rollbacks, and limited-connectivity deployments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
- At least 5 years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
- Expertise in Python and strong understanding of concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
- Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services using low-latency messaging and time-series and relational stores.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, infrastructure-as-code, observability, Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and controlled networks.
- Preferred qualifications include proficiency in C++, Ansible, or NiceGUI; experience with DAQ, closed-loop control, flight-software-integrated testing and simulation tools, safety-critical certification artifacts, ground-systems standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA and employer-matched HSA options, and additional voluntary insurance.
- $120/month wellness reimbursement, parental and family-building benefits, and sponsored One Medical memberships.
- 401(k) plan with a 6% immediately vested employer match, cell phone reimbursement, relocation support, and incentive equity or long-term cash awards.
- Stocked kitchen with daily lunch and twice-weekly dinner, team events, happy hours, mission-success celebrations, and complimentary EV charging.
- Full-time role that is on-site in El Segundo, California.
About Varda Space Industries
Varda is building the infrastructure for a thriving orbital economy, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules. From new, life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optic cables, there is a world of products used to benefit life on Earth that can only be manufactured in space. Our mission is to expand the economic bounds of humankind.