Ground Software Engineer - Core

Loftorbital; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

35 days PTO

Health insurance

Lunch vouchers

Travel opportunities between offices

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Loft Orbital is seeking a Software Engineer for its Core team in Ground Platform. You’ll build shared services and tools to support Loft’s ground platform, improve workflows, and boost platform reliability.

You’ll work on backend services, automation, AI tooling, and observability, with opportunities to participate in SatDevOps rotations. Must‑haves include solid backend development, IaC, CI/CD, and Kubernetes experience.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and implement technologies across Loft's software stack.
• Lead AI tooling development for development, review, and anomaly investigation.
• Develop ground platform functionalities: workflow automation and microservice communication.
• Ensure reliability and performance of ground platform infrastructure, including queues, CI/CD, and observability.

Skills

Backend development

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Tools

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

NATS

Job description

Loft Orbital is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Core team within Ground Platform. The team develops the core capabilities that support Loft's ground platform, improve development workflows, and ensure platform reliability. You'll help build shared services and tools that benefit software teams across Loft.

You’ll work on backend services, workflow automation, AI tooling, and platform infrastructure, with a focus on observability and reliability. You’ll also have the opportunity to take part in spacecraft operations through SatDevOps rotations, helping investigate anomalies and supporting real‑time incident response when needed.

About this role:

• Evaluate and implement new technologies and software patterns that propagate to the entire 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
• Have the opportunity to take part in spacecraft operations through SatDevOps rotations, occasionally helping investigate anomalies and supporting real‑time incident response when needed
• Collaborate with software engineers and satellite operators from all over the company to support and foster consistent, maintainable, and performant software solutions

Must Haves:

• 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

Nice to Haves:

• Python development, particularly with Django
• Knowledge of GraphQL and Graphene
• Experience with message queues and streaming technologies ( NATS )
• Knowledge of DevOps and observability tools (Helm, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, etc)
• Familiarity with AI tooling
• Frontend development with Vue and Web Components

Some of Our Awesome Benefits:

• Equity, we want you to have an active role in our success
• Up to 35 days of Paid Time Off (vacations & RTT ) and flexible working hours, we want you to be at your best
• Health and life insurance, we care about your health
• Lunch Vouchers, because let's be honest, we love food! (we even have a slack channel about it #loft-gourmand )
• Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse to learn from our differences
• Company and team off‑sites and many other events to work & celebrate together
• Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable
• Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft, we value respectful debate and people who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes.

Who We Are

Loft: Space Made Simple. 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, Loft's 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. As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.