Onboard Software Engineer - Deployment & Runtime Environments
Loft Orbital Solutions4 months ago
Toulouse, FranceMid Level
Responsibilities
- 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 the container manager, base images, and container registry service.
- Scale deployment pipelines as new hardware platforms and satellite programs are added.
- Contribute to product validation and software readiness before deployment to orbit.
- Design, implement, and refine software with ownership from concept through delivery.
- Participate in code reviews, design proposals, and development-process improvements.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or similar runtimes.
- Deep Linux systems knowledge covering boot processes, service management, filesystem layouts, and failure recovery.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab-CI, Jenkins, or similar tools.
- Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows.
- Experience with embedded or resource-constrained systems.
- Working knowledge of Python.
- Preferred experience includes OTA updates, golden images, A/B partitions, staged rollouts, safe rollback, C++, CUE, Go, Rust, Yocto, device trees, systemd, Linux on ARM, pytest, Googletest, Unity, gRPC, and ZMQ/NATS.
Benefits
- Equity participation.
- Up to 35 days of paid time off, including vacation and RTT, with flexible working hours.
- Health and life insurance.
- Lunch vouchers.
- Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse.
- Company and team off-sites and other events.
- Relocation assistance to Toulouse 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.