Senior Security Engineer
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
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 Security Engineer on our Security and Compliance Team your mission will be to ensure that our highly automated containerized and globally distributed infrastructure remains secure throughout its lifecycle from architecture to incident response. Youll be at the heart of our DevSecOps efforts collaborating directly with infrastructure software product and solution teams to scale Lofts security maturity while embracing our startup agility and culture.
This is a hands-on deeply collaborative role offering broad scope rapid growth opportunities and yes a chance to contribute to space missions
About the Role:
- Champion DevSecOps best practices by designing and implementing security controls directly into our CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab CI).
- Lead and automate application and infrastructure security assessments including threat modeling and code review.
- Partner with developers and SREs to identify remediate and prevent vulnerabilities through secure design and practical guidance.
- Design build and maintain secure architecture patterns for containerized cloud-native and distributed workloads.
- Develop and maintain automated security tooling such as container image scanning IaC validation and policy-as-code.
- Collaborate on automated security tooling for container image scanning IaC validation and RBAC compliance.
- Support incident response workflows including detection forensics root cause analysis and post-mortems.
- Provide technical mentorship and real-time enablement to help teams adopt a secure-by-default mindset.
- Contribute to internal security tools and automation using Python Go or other modern languages.
- Continuously improve how we measure and scale security across our SRE and infrastructure platforms.
Must Haves:
- Deep experience with cloud security in AWS Azure or GCP environments.
- Strong knowledge of container and Kubernetes security in production environments.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g. Python Go C).
- Hands-on experience with zero-trust architecture service mesh and software-defined networking.
- Solid understanding of DevSecOps pipelines IaC tools and secure build processes.
- Hands-on experience with vulnerability scanning SAST/DAST tools and automated security testing.
- Proven success in fast-paced highly collaborative environments ideally at a startup or scale-up.
- Comfortable working closely with developers and SREs in an enablement-first security culture.
- Clear concise communication and documentation skills.
- Ability to thrive in a multicultural globally distributed engineering team.
- Masters degreein Computer Science or a similar field
Nice to Haves:
- Practical experience with policy-as-code (OPA Sentinel etc.).
- Understanding of software-defined networking and security policy enforcement in mesh environments.
- Familiarity with modern SRE practices observability and resilience engineering.
- Contributions to open-source security tools or frameworks.
- Interest or experience in space operations or aerospace systems.
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 flexible 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 in-orbit demonstrations 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 25 missions flown Lofts flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.
At Loft youll be given the autonomy and ownership to solve significant challenges but with a close-knit 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 team-oriented 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 on-orbit 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
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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.
