Senior Software Architect - Satellite Ground Platform

Airbus Ventures; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Meridian Space UK Limited is seeking a Principal Software Architect to own the software architecture and full-stack development for the Meridian Ground Segment. You will bridge cloud-native infrastructure with edge environments to deliver a high-performance global network, guiding design reviews and mentoring engineers.

You will collaborate with customers and partners to shape requirements and drive the execution of ground network features, ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable systems for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of professional software engineering experience, spanning cloud architectures, distributed systems, and edge environments.
• Strong proficiency in a mix of modern programming languages including C/C++, Golang, Python, Java, or Rust.
• Extensive hands-on experience with cloud-native orchestration and containerization frameworks (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management (Ansible, Terraform), and network automation protocols (NetConf, YANG).
• Deep familiarity with modern distributed systems tooling, including RESTful APIs, gRPC, Kafka, NATS, and data serialization formats (JSON, YAML).
• Demonstrated expertise in system observability, telemetry, and monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Knowledge of high-performance packet processing techniques (DPDK, eBPF) and low-latency tuning.
• Understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, routing, and network performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and maintaining full-stack software solutions for the Meridian Ground Segment, bridging distributed cloud environments with edge networking products.
• Architecting scalable software frameworks for the entire ground network, including radio access processing nodes, routing, core control planes, and orchestration.
• Driving the transition of network applications into scalable, cloud-native microservices with container orchestration and modern APIs.
• Overseeing software design and integration of virtualized and containerized environments with high-performance data plane technologies.
• Leading software design reviews and providing technical mentorship to engineering teams for telecom-grade platforms.
• Interfacing with customers and partners to shape requirements and drive ground network feature delivery.

Skills

C/C++

Golang

Python

Java

Rust

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Ansible

Terraform

NetConf

YANG

DPDK

eBPF

TCP/IP

Kafka

NATS

Prometheus

Grafana

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field

Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, telecommunications, or a related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Ansible

Terraform

NetConf

YANG

DPDK

eBPF

JSON

YAML

Job description

Meridian Space UK Limited is seeking a Principal Software Architect to own the software architecture and full-stack development for the Meridian Ground Segment. You will bridge cloud-native infrastructure with edge environments to deliver a high-performance global network, guiding design reviews and mentoring engineers.

You will collaborate with customers and partners to shape requirements and drive the execution of ground network features, ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable systems for