Ground Platform Backend Engineer - AI Tools & Reliability

Loft Orbital Solutions; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

35 days PTO

Health and life insurance

Lunch vouchers

Cross-office travel opportunities to:

Off-sites and team events

Relocation assistance to Toulouse

Job summary

Loft Orbital is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Core team within Ground Platform. You will build backend services, workflow automation, AI tooling, and platform infrastructure with a focus on observability and reliability.

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in spacecraft operations through SatDevOps rotations and collaborate across software engineers and satellite operators to deliver robust, scalable software across Loft.

Qualifications

• Solid backend software development experience.
• Hands-on deployment and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Ability to define and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and implement new technologies and software patterns across Loft's software stack.
• Lead the creation and evolution of Loft's AI tooling for development, review, and spacecraft anomaly investigation.
• Develop central ground platform functionalities such as workflow automation, microservice inter-communication, and metrics.
• Take responsibility for the reliability and performance of Loft's ground platform infrastructure, including message queues, CI/CD, and observability.
• Opportunity to participate in spacecraft operations through SatDevOps rotations, assisting anomaly investigations and real-time incident response.
• Collaborate with software engineers and satellite operators to deliver maintainable, performant software solutions.

Skills

Backend development

Deployment & IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Loft Orbital is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Core team within Ground Platform. You will build backend services, workflow automation, AI tooling, and platform infrastructure with a focus on observability and reliability.

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in spacecraft operations through SatDevOps rotations and collaborate across software engineers and satellite operators to deliver robust, scalable software across Loft.