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Backend Engineer Mission Operations Services

Loft Orbital Solutions

Job Location:

Toulouse - France

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 10 October 2026 (Yesterday)

Application Deadline: 7 January 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Loft Orbital is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Mission Operations Services (MOS) team. MOS owns the backend services that let Loft operators and customers command monitor and automate our satellite fleet through Cockpit our mission control system. Youll help build and scale the microservices that sit between ground and flight software turning high-level intent into safe reliable on-orbit operations.

Youll work across multiple satellite platforms and collaborate closely with backend flight software embedded systems test and satellite operations teams. This is a hands-on engineering role where youll both build new systems and help debug live missions. We also offer SatDevOps training so you dont just write the tools - you actually use them to operate spacecraft.

If youre excited about building backend systems that directly control satellites - and you like the idea of both shipping code and helping fly missions - wed love to hear from you.

About this Role

Design and build backend tools for operations: services that power passes autopilots activities and daytoday satellite operations.
Handle commands and telemetry across multiple satellite buses and ground segment providers with a strong focus on safety robustness and observability.
Write production backend code in Python owning services endtoend 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.
Support internal users of Cockpit (operators test engineers solutions engineers) by improving APIs workflows and debugging tools.
Have the opportunity to take part in spacecraft operations through SatDevOps rotations occasionally helping investigate anomalies and supporting realtime incident response when needed.

Must Haves:

4 years of relevant backend software engineering experience in production environments
Solid Python development experience in a production environment.
Experience with Docker and containerbased development.
Handson experience with backend web development frameworks (e.g. Django Flask FastAPI etc.).
Proven API design skills (designing documenting and maintaining HTTP/GraphQL/RESTstyle APIs).

Nice to Haves:

Experience with Django and/or GraphQL.
Strong database fundamentals and practical experience (e.g. Postgres timeseries DBs).
Exposure to Kubernetes in production.
Familiarity with InfluxDB / TimescaleDB or other timeseries systems.
Background in missioncritical distributed or realtime systems (space or otherwise).

Some of Our Awesome Benefits:

Equity we want you to have an active role in our success
Up to 35 days of Paid Time Off (vacations & RTT ) and flexible working hours we want you to be at your best
Health and life insurance we care about your health
Lunch Vouchers because lets be honest we love food! (we even have a slack channel about it #loft-gourmand)
Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco Colorado and Toulouse to learn from our differences
Company and team off-sites and many other events to work & celebrate together
Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable

Who We Are: 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 Lofts 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.

*Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft we value respectful debate and people who arent afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply even if you dont check all the boxes.

Who We Are

Loft: Space Made Simple.

Founded in 2017 Loft provides governments companies and research institutions with a fast reliable and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.

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