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Senior Software Engineer

Constellation Space · San Francisco · On-site

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About Constellation Space

ConstellationOS is the ML-native operations platform for satellite fleets. Unified telemetry, link forecasts, and policy-bound orchestration. Start with a 30-day shadow pilot. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build the backend for our data collection efforts. You will own the architecture that captures, buffers, processes, stores and retrieves our multimodal data. You will design a hybrid on-premise and cloud infrastructure that can support TB-scale data collected daily. You will also collaborate closely with our AI team to inform the design of the data infrastructure that will deliver high-performance, training-ready datasets for our foundation models.

What they're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience shipping production-grade backend systems
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python, Rust, C++ or Go
  • Proficiency with high-performance messaging and queuing tools (e.g., ZeroMQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis Pub/Sub) for inter-process communication
  • Strong experience architecting and managing infrastructure on major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Experience with high-performance data transfer techniques, such as zero-copy networking, shared memory (IPC), or memory-mapped files
  • Experience with time-series databases (e.g., TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, ClickHouse) and efficient file formats for data lakes (Parquet, Avro, Arrow). You understand the trade-offs between write-heavy and read-heavy optimization
More about this role

Constellation is creating the AI-human translation layer that ensures humanity evolves alongside our technology. Our mission is to leverage AI towards addressing deep and meaningful problems at the core of the human experience: empowering people towards their goals, augmenting our cognition and emotional wellness, and understanding ourselves and each other. Our path forward is to move away from AI that captures human knowledge towards AI that truly understands what it is to be human. We are generating the richest multimodal dataset ever collected to build a new class of foundation models and we're seeking the founding team of engineers to build the infrastructure that makes this ambitious future a reality.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build the backend for our data collection efforts. You will own the architecture that captures, buffers, processes, stores and retrieves our multimodal data. You will design a hybrid on-premise and cloud infrastructure that can support TB-scale data collected daily. You will also collaborate closely with our AI team to inform the design of the data infrastructure that will deliver high-performance, training-ready datasets for our...

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