Ground Software Engineer - Core
Loft Orbital Solutions12 days ago
Toulouse, FranceSenior
Responsibilities
- Evaluate and implement technologies and software patterns for Loft’s software stack.
- Lead the creation and evolution of AI tooling for development, review, and spacecraft anomaly investigation.
- Develop central ground-platform capabilities including workflow automation, microservice inter-communication, and metrics.
- Own the reliability and performance of ground-platform infrastructure, including message queues, CI/CD, and observability.
- Participate in SatDevOps rotations, spacecraft operations, anomaly investigation, and real-time incident response when needed.
- Collaborate with software engineers and satellite operators to support consistent, maintainable, and performant software solutions.
Requirements
- 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.
- Python development, particularly with Django, is preferred.
- Knowledge of GraphQL and Graphene is preferred.
- Experience with message queues and streaming technologies such as NATS is preferred.
- Knowledge of DevOps and observability tools such as Helm, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Loki is preferred.
- Familiarity with AI tooling is preferred.
- Frontend development experience with Vue and Web Components is preferred.
Benefits
- Equity, up to 35 days of paid time off, flexible working hours, health and life insurance, lunch vouchers, company and team off-sites, cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse, and relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable.
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About Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions builds standardized satellite platforms and delivers end-to-end missions as a service for governments, companies, and research institutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held firm integrates, launches, and operates spacecraft to deploy Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on‑orbit compute, and national security payloads in months. Loft has flown more than 30 missions, using hardware and software abstraction layers atop commodity satellite buses.