Loft Orbital
Backend Engineer - Mission Operations Services
San Francisco, CA
Sponsorship not specified$140k-$190kDetected 22 days ago
PythonDjangoFastAPIFlaskBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLDockerKubernetesAPI DevelopmentGraphQLRESTIncident ResponseEmbedded SystemsResearch
About the role
- Handle commands and telemetry across multiple satellite buses and ground segment providers, with a strong focus on safety, robustness, and observability.
- Have the opportunity to take part in spacecraft operations through SatDevOps rotations, occasionally helping investigate anomalies and supporting real‑time incident response when needed.
Responsibilities
- Write production backend code in Python, owning services end‑to‑end from design and implementation through deployment and maintenance.
- Collaborate with flight software, embedded software, integration and test, and space infrastructure teams to integrate new satellite buses and capabilities into Cockpit.
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant backend software engineering experience in production environments
- Solid Python development experience in a production environment.
- Experience with Docker and container‑based development.
- Hands‑on experience with backend web development frameworks (e.g., Django, Flask, FastAPI, etc.).
- Experience with Django and/or GraphQL.
- Familiarity with InfluxDB / TimescaleDB or other time‑series systems.
Compensation
- $140k-$190k
Company info
- Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.
- We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more.
- Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months.
- With more than 30 missions flown, Loft's flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.
- With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.
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