Onboard Software Engineer - Deployment & Runtime Environments
Loft Orbital Solutions3 months ago
Base Salary
$144k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to and evolve the bundle management tool that resolves dependencies and assembles mission-specific software stacks.
- Develop and harden onboard Linux infrastructure, including service deployment, execution management, and failure recovery.
- Evolve the Runtime Container Environment, including base images and the container registry service, for partner and customer workloads.
- Scale the deployment pipeline as new hardware platforms and satellite programs are added.
- Contribute to product validation and validate software readiness before orbital deployment.
- Design, implement, and refine software from concept through delivery with a high degree of ownership.
- Participate in code reviews, design proposals, and continuous development-process improvement.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or similar runtimes.
- Deep knowledge of Linux boot processes, service management, filesystem layout, and failure recovery.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab-CI or Jenkins.
- Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows.
- Experience with embedded or resource-constrained systems.
- Working proficiency with Python.
- Preferred qualifications include OTA deployment experience, golden images, A/B partitions, staged rollouts, safe rollback, C++, CUE, Go, Rust, Yocto, device trees, systemd, Linux on ARM, unit testing frameworks, and middleware frameworks.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance options for employees and dependents.
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts, including an employer HSA contribution.
- Employer-paid life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Flexible time off, 12 paid holidays, a 401(k) plan, and equity options.
- Daily catered lunches and snacks in the office.
- International exposure to the team in France.
- Paid parental leave of 14 weeks for birthing parents and 10 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Fertility and family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility.
- Off-sites, social events, celebrations, and relocation assistance when applicable.
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.