Backend Engineer Data Management Services

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 18 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Loft Orbital is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Data Management Services (DMS) team.

DMS owns the Cockpit backend services that move payload data from our satellites to our customers. The team builds and maintains the services that ingest data from ground stations process and categorize it track it endtoend and deliver it reliably to internal tools and external endpoints.

Youll help design and scale the microservices and data pipelines that sit between ground segment satellite operations and customer deliveries - turning raw onorbit data into usable products. Youll work closely with backend ground software flight software space infrastructure and customer operations teams and youll have a direct impact on how quickly and reliably customers receive their data. 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 move and transform satellite data at scale - and you like the idea of both shipping code and seeing how it performs in real operations - wed love to hear from you.

About this Role:

Design and build backend services for data ingest processing and delivery that move payload data from ground stations and other sources into Cockpit and out to customer endpoints.
Implement and improve data pipelines and APIs with a strong focus on data correctness traceability performance and reliability.
Own and evolve backend components such as connectors processing jobs and delivery services that other Cockpit teams and customerfacing tools depend on.
Collaborate with other Cockpit teams and stakeholders (mission management mission operations space infrastructure customer operations) to make sure onorbit tasking and ground data flows work smoothly together.
Support internal users of Cockpits data services by improving APIs debugging tricky data issues and strengthening observability (metrics logs dashboards).
Have the opportunity to take part in spacecraft operations through SatDevOps rotations occasionally helping investigate datarelated anomalies and supporting realtime incident response when needed.

Must Haves:

Strong 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).
Practical experience working with databases and datacentric backend services.

Nice to Haves:

Experience with Django and/or GraphQL.
Strong database fundamentals and experience with Postgres or similar relational databases.
Exposure to timeseries or analytical data systems (e.g. InfluxDB TimescaleDB or similar).
Experience building or operating data pipelines (batch or streaming) and largevolume data processing systems.
Exposure to Kubernetes and cloudnative deployments in production.
Background in missioncritical distributed or realtime systems especially dataintensive ones (space or otherwise).
Experience collaborating with international distributed teams across time zones and cultures.

$140000 - $190000 a year

State law requires us to share the posted base compensation range for this role. Final compensation will be determined based on your education experience knowledge skills and abilities. The salary range is intentionally broad to account for differences in experience and scope as well as geographic market variations in pay. We evaluate each candidate individually to ensure alignment between their background the roles responsibilities and local market 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.

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.

Required Experience:

Loft Orbital is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Data Management Services (DMS) team.DMS owns the Cockpit backend services that move payload data from our satellites to our customers. The team builds and maintains the services that ingest data from ground stations process and categorize it...