Onboard Software Engineer: Linux & Container Runtime

Loft Orbital; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Up to 35 days PTO (vacations & RTT)

Health and life insurance

Lunch Vouchers

Cross-office travel Toulouse/US/France

Company off‑sites

Job summary

Loft Orbital in Toulouse is seeking an on‑orbit software engineer to join the Deployment & Runtime Environments team. You will work across Linux internals, container runtimes, and CI pipelines to package, deploy, and run onboard workloads.

You will help scale the bundle management tool, harden Linux infrastructure, and evolve the runtime container environment, owning features from concept through delivery while collaborating in code reviews and product validation.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or similar runtimes).
• Deep Linux system knowledge: boot process, service management, filesystem layout, and failure recovery.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab-CI, Jenkins, or similar).
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Experience with embedded or resource-constrained systems.
• Working Python

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and evolve our bundle management tool — the tool that resolves package dependencies, assembles mission‑specific software stacks, and enables the Solutions team to spin up and maintain an ever‑growing number of satellite programs
• Develop and harden our onboard Linux infrastructure: how services are deployed on the rootfs, what system manages their execution, and how we ensure reliable and recoverable Linux operation in orbit
• Evolve our Runtime Container Environment — the container manager and the full stack around it (base images, container registry service) — enabling partner and customer workloads to run securely onboard our vehicles
• Support scaling of the deployment pipeline as new hardware platforms are added and the number of active satellite programs grows
• Contribute to Product Validation — as the last step in the development pipeline, the team plays a key role in validating software readiness before it goes to orbit
• Design, implement, and refine software with a high degree of ownership, driving features from concept through delivery
• Participate in code reviews, design proposals, and the continuous improvement of development processes

Skills

Containerization

Linux knowledge

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Embedded systems

Python

Tools

GitLab-CI

Jenkins

Go

Rust

CUE

Yocto

Job description

Loft Orbital in Toulouse is seeking an on‑orbit software engineer to join the Deployment & Runtime Environments team. You will work across Linux internals, container runtimes, and CI pipelines to package, deploy, and run onboard workloads.

You will help scale the bundle management tool, harden Linux infrastructure, and evolve the runtime container environment, owning features from concept through delivery while collaborating in code reviews and product validation.