Ground Platform Engineer — Backend, AI Tools & Reliability

Loftorbital; Toulouse; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity

Up to 35 days PTO (vacations & RTT)

Health and life insurance

Lunch vouchers

Relocation assistance to Toulouse

Cross‑office travel: San Francisco, CO

Team off‑sites and events

Descripción de la vacante

Loft Orbital is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Core team for Ground Platform. You will help build backend services, automate workflows, and develop AI tooling to support spacecraft anomaly investigation and real‑time incident response.

You’ll contribute to reliability and performance of the ground platform, including CI/CD, messaging, and observability, while collaborating across software engineers and satellite operators to deliver scalable, maintainable systems.

Formación

• Solid backend software development experience.
• Hands‑on knowledge of deployment and Infrastructure as Code.
• Ability to define and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working with Kubernetes.

Responsabilidades

• Evaluate and implement new technologies and software patterns that propagate to 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.
• Collaborate with software engineers and satellite operators to ensure maintainable and performant software solutions.

Conocimientos

Backend development

CI/CD

IaC

Kubernetes

Observability

Herramientas

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Descripción del empleo

Loft Orbital is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Core team for Ground Platform. You will help build backend services, automate workflows, and develop AI tooling to support spacecraft anomaly investigation and real‑time incident response.

You’ll contribute to reliability and performance of the ground platform, including CI/CD, messaging, and observability, while collaborating across software engineers and satellite operators to deliver scalable, maintainable systems.