Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
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Job Summary
Wanna join the adventure
Loft Orbital is revolutionizing access to space by building reliable shareable satellites that drastically reduce the time and complexity traditionally required to get to orbit. We operate satellites fly customer payloads and handle entire missions from end-to-end. Were a close-knit team of space enthusiasts software experts and cutting-edge technologists all working together to make space simple for our customers.
As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer on our Cloud Infrastructure Team youll play a pivotal role in maintaining and scaling our ground segment infrastructure. Youll collaborate across development operations and IT to ensure the integration delivery and reliability of services that support our space operations on Earth and in orbit.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and help build modern automated space infrastructure. This is not your typical SRE role we apply DevOps principles even to spacecraft control. Yes we call it SatDevOps and well train you to operate our satellites!
About the Role:
- Collaborate with developers and satellite operators to foster a strong SatDevOps culture.
- Design implement and maintain scalable reliable and secure infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment.
- Improve our developer experience by building better tools workflows and environments.
- Lead efforts to automate and optimize systems including CI/CD pipelines infrastructure provisioning (IaC) and deployment workflows.
- Own and evolve our observability stack (metrics tracing logs) to improve usability and performance. Grafana-centric ecosystems are a plus.
- Implement and advocate for best practices in software reliability fault tolerance and performance tuning.
- Proactively identify investigate and resolve system reliability issues performing root cause analyses and implementing long-term fixes.
- Partner with teams to design and operate Software Defined Network (SDN) solutions.
- Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive team culture where respectful debate and continuous learning are celebrated.
Must Haves:
- Strong experience with public cloud infrastructure ideally GCP.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture deployment ops and resource optimization.
- Demonstrated ability to design and build scalable highly available systems.
- Familiarity with Software Defined Networking (SDN) concepts and tools.
- Experience implementing and maintaining observability stacks (Grafana Prometheus Loki etc.).
- Proficiency in at least one backend language: Go Python Rust C/C or Java.
- Deep understanding and hands-on experience with DevOps practices: CI/CD infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation.
- Proven track record of working in fast-paced high-growth technical environments.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently with a proactive results-driven mindset.
- Strong communication skills; thrives in a multicultural cross-functional team.
Nice to Haves:
- Hands-on experience with GitOps frameworks (ArgoCD FluxCD).
- Interest or experience in FinOps and cost-optimized architectures.
- Understanding of orchestration in resource-constrained environments like space systems.
- Knowledge of systems engineering tools and SDLC governance.
- Familiarity with security practices vulnerability scanning threat detection risk mitigation.
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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Loft Orbital builds software and hardware products to fly and operate any payload on a standard satellite bus. See how we're making space simple.
