Ground Software Engineer - Core Verified today
About the role
Loft is seeking a Ground Software Engineer to join the Core team within Ground Platform. The team develops 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 participate in spacecraft operations through SatDevOps rotations, helping investigate anomalies and supporting real-time incident response when needed.
Key responsibilities
- Evaluate and implement new technologies and software patterns that propagate to 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
- Participate in spacecraft operations through SatDevOps rotations to investigate anomalies and support real-time incident response
- Collaborate with software engineers and satellite operators across the company to support consistent, maintainable, and performant software solutions
Required experience
- 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
Preferred experience
- 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)
- Familiarity with AI tooling
- Frontend development with Vue and Web Components
What we offer
- Equity stake in the company
- Up to 35 days of paid time off (vacations and RTT) and 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 events
- Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable
About Loft Orbital
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. With more than 30 missions flown and a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling quickly across offices in San Francisco, Golden, and Toulouse.