2 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$130k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and lifecycle of software for satellite commanding, health monitoring, and fleet management.
- Build services and tools for network operations, payload operations, and automated payload testing.
- Develop satellite and network performance forecasting tools for pre-sales and capacity planning.
- Own features end to end from backend architecture and database modeling through operator interfaces and automation scripts.
- Deliver resilient workflows that send commands to space vehicles and ground stations.
- Build and maintain web-based operator tools for commanding, telemetry visualization, execution tracking, and procedure orchestration.
- Automate spacecraft testing, mission rehearsals, on-orbit operations, and anomaly-investigation workflows.
- Partner with payload engineers, network engineers, system architects, and flight operators on requirements and software architecture.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of complex technical problems through production operations.
- Strong proficiency in Python or similar backend languages.
- Experience with backend services using FastAPI, Flask, or gRPC.
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling.
- Working familiarity with TypeScript, JavaScript, and React for internal tools and operator dashboards.
- Experience designing reliable APIs and event-driven architectures.
- Experience deploying and operating production services using Linux and Docker.
- Ability to reason about complex distributed state and operational workflows.
- Experience with distributed systems, observability, Kubernetes, multi-cloud or on-premise infrastructure, telemetry processing, time-series data, distributed pub/sub systems, mission operations, automated testing frameworks, or high-consequence software is preferred.
Benefits
- Equity via incentive stock options, company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.
- The role is based at Astranis’s headquarters in Northern California, USA.
- U.S. Citizenship, lawful permanent residency, or refugee/asylee status is required for compliance with U.S. Government space technology export regulations.
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About Astranis
Astranis designs, builds, and operates small geostationary communications satellites to deliver dedicated broadband and secure networks for telecom providers, enterprises, and government agencies. It sells satellite capacity and turnkey spacecraft/services, with offerings centered on its MicroGEO platform and contracts that include work with NASA and the U.S. Space Force across GEO and MEO missions. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company reports a commercial backlog of over $1 billion for more than a dozen MicroGEO satellites.