Ground Software Engineer - Core

Loft Orbital Solutions Inc. leases space on satellites. The Company provides satellite platform and integration, standard hardware interfaces, launch booking, finance, and insurance solutions to reduce risk and the…

Location: Golden, CO
Company size: 50–500
Posted: Today
Via: Lever

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Ground Software Engineer - Core

Loft Orbital· Golden, COView company profile

Job title: Ground Software Engineer - Core
Job location: Golden, CO
Job listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/loftorbital/518d4f0a-d25a-4203-891a-94e8caf5ac5d
Job description: Wanna join the adventure?

Loft Orbital is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Core team within Ground Platform. The team develops the core capabilities that support Loft's ground platform, improve development workflows, and ensure platform reliability. You'll help build shared services and tools that benefit software teams across Loft.

You'll work on backend services, workflow automation, AI tooling, and platform infrastructure, with a focus on observability and reliability. You'll also have the opportunity to take part in spacecraft operations through SatDevOps rotations, helping investigate anomalies and supporting real-time incident response when needed.

If you're excited about improving how software is developed across Loft, contributing to key technical decisions, and building more reliable platform systems, we'd love to hear from you.

About this role:

Evaluate and implement new technologies and software patterns that propagate to the entire Loft's software stack

Lead the creation and evolution of Loft's AI tooling for development, review, and spacecraft anomaly investigation

Develop central ground platform functionalities such as workflow automation, microservice inter-communication, and metrics

Take responsibility for the reliability and performance of Loft's ground platform infrastructure, including message queues, CI/CD, 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

Collaborate with software engineers and satellite operators from all over the company to support and foster consistent, maintainable, and performant software solutions

Must Haves:

Solid backend software development experience

Hands-on knowledge of deployment and Infrastructure as Code

Ability to define and maintain CI/CD pipelines

Experience working with Kubernetes

Nice to Haves:

Python development, particularly with Django

Knowledge of GraphQL and Graphene

Experience with message queues and streaming technologies (NATS)

Knowledge of DevOps and observability tools (Helm, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, etc)

Familiarity with AI tooling

Frontend development with Vue and Web Components

Some of Our Awesome Benefits:

100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance option for employees and dependents

Flexible Spending (FSA) and Health Savings (HSA) Accounts offered with an employer contribution to the HSA

100% employer paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability insurance

Flexible Time Off policy for vacation and sick leave, and 12 paid holidays

401(k) plan and equity options

Daily catered lunches and snacks

International exposure to our team in France

Fully paid parental leave; 14 weeks for primary caregiver and 10 weeks for secondary caregiver

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Off-sites and many social events and celebrations

Relocation assistance when applicable