Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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11-05-2025
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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 endtoend. Were a closeknit team of space enthusiasts software experts and cuttingedge technologists all working together to make space simple for our customers.
As a SeniorSite Reliability 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 cuttingedge 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. Grafanacentric 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 longterm 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 handson experience with DevOps practices: CI/CD infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation.
- Proven track record of working in fastpaced highgrowth technical environments.
- Excellent problemsolving skills and ability to operate independently with a proactive resultsdriven mindset.
- Strong communication skills; thrives in a multicultural crossfunctional team.
Nice to Haves:
- Handson experience with GitOps frameworks (ArgoCD FluxCD).
- Interest or experience in FinOps and costoptimized architectures.
- Understanding of orchestration in resourceconstrained environments like space systems.
- Knowledge of systems engineering tools and SDLC governance.
- Familiarity with security practices vulnerability scanning threat detection risk mitigation.
$140250 $190000 a year
State law requires us to tell you the base compensation range for this role which is $140250 $190000 per year. This is determined by your education experience knowledge skills and abilities. The salary range for this role is intentionally wide as we evaluate individuals based on their unique experience and abilities to fit our needs. Most importantly we are excited to meet you and see if you are a great fit for our team. What wecantquantify for you are the exciting challenges supportive team and amazing culture we enjoy.
*Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria women and other marginalized 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
Our standard interface enables us to fly multiple customer payloads on the same satellite with capabilities such as earth imagery weather & climate /science data collection IoT connectivity inorbit demonstrations and national security missions. Our customers trust us to manage their space infrastructure so they can focus on what matters most to them: operating their mission and collecting their data.
At Loft youll be given the autonomy and ownership to solve significant challenges but with a closeknit and supportive team at your back. We believe that diversity and community are the foundation of an open culture. We are committed to hiring the best people regardless of background and make their time at Loft the most fulfilling period of their career.
We value kind supportive and teamoriented collaborators. It is also crucial for us that you are a problem solver and a great communicator. As our team is international you will need strong English skills to better collaborate easily communicate complex ideas and convey important messages.
With 4 satellites onorbit and a wave of exciting missions launching soon we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco CA Golden CO and Toulouse France.
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
Employment Type
Full-Time
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