Sr. Full Stack Engineer
Xona Space Systems10 months ago
Burlingame, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$140k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end design, development, testing, and deployment of mission-control software for spacecraft commanding, real-time telemetry monitoring, and flight operations.
- Design and implement scalable backend services, microservices, and REST APIs for real-time command-and-control interfaces.
- Build responsive, high-performance front-end interfaces for spacecraft constellation management and flight operations.
- Design, implement, and optimize SQL and NoSQL data models for operational workloads.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud-based deployments.
- Monitor application performance, logs, and reliability metrics to support system stability and operational readiness.
- Support containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineering teams on scope, requirements, and delivery timelines.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional full-stack software engineering experience.
- Expertise in at least one modern front-end framework, such as React, Angular, or Vue.
- Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages, such as Python or Node.js.
- Hands-on experience designing and consuming RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
- Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
- Knowledge of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and system resiliency.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience deploying and operating cloud-based systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with mission-critical, real-time, or operational systems is desired.
- Exposure to aerospace, satellite, or complex hardware-integrated systems is desired.
- Experience with Terraform is desired.
- Familiarity with production observability, monitoring, and logging tools is desired.
- Ability to mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical direction and best practices is desired.
- U.S. roles require U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residence, or another protected-individual status under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
- U.K. roles require BPSS checks and eligibility to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
- Canada roles require reliability-status security clearance and successful assessment for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and ITAR.
Tech Stack
AngularAWSAzureDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJenkinsKubernetesMongoDBMySQLNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactTerraformVue.js
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About Xona Space Systems
Xona Space Systems builds a low Earth orbit positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) satellite constellation, branded Pulsar, to deliver centimeter-level accuracy and secure timing to devices and infrastructure worldwide. The company provides PNT signals and integrations for sectors such as autonomous systems, defense, and industrial IoT. Privately held and headquartered in Burlingame, California, it targets GPS compatibility and notes U.S. export-control eligibility requirements for many roles.