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Ground Software Engineer Core

Loft Orbital Solutions

Job Location:

Toulouse - France

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 1 November 2026 (4 days ago)

Application Deadline: 29 January 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 Lofts ground platform improve development workflows and ensure platform reliability. Youll help build shared services and tools that benefit software teams across Loft.

Youll work on backend services workflow automation AI tooling and platform infrastructure with a focus on observability and reliability. Youll 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 youre excited about improving how software is developed across Loft contributing to key technical decisions and building more reliable platform systems wed love to hear from you.

About this role:

Evaluate and implement new technologies and software patterns that propagate to the entire Lofts software stack
Lead the creation and evolution of Lofts 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 Lofts 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 realtime 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:

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

*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.

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.

As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

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