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About the role
Loft Orbital is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Ground Software Solutions team.
What they're looking for
- A minimum of 2 years of experience in software engineering, systems integration, or satellite-operations automation with meaningful software development ownership
- Strong Python experience, including building maintainable automation, tooling, services, or operational workflows—not just one-off scripts
- Experience using Git in a collaborative engineering environment, including branching, code review, and maintaining changes over time
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot software and integration issues by isolating root causes, evaluating trade-offs, and driving problems to resolution
- Experience with Docker and containerized development or deployment workflows
- Experience working across multiple technical components or teams
More about this role
Wanna join the adventure?
Loft Orbital is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Ground Software Solutions team.
The Ground Software Solutions Team develops and maintains custom ground software capabilities for our customers. We configure and extend Cockpit (Loft's Mission Control and Scheduling Software) for specific program needs, deliver custom features to support mission deployment and execution, and help ensure smooth operations by connecting product capabilities with mission-specific needs. We also drive product improvement by providing operational feedback and collaborating closely with Product teams.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting edge technology, helping build modern automated infrastructure, bringing software and space together. As well as developing our future systems, the role will also be working on real-time issues on live missions, helping to solve problems as they occur. On top of this we also offer SatDevOps training to enable this person to actually operate our spacecraft!
Some technical information about the position
The stack we are using: Python, Django, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Cue, C++
- Own and maintain Ground Procedures, Configurations...
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