Data Engineer – Spacecraft Data Platform & Mission Ops

K2 Space Corporation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

K2 Space Corporation is building the largest and highest-powered satellites, and our software team enables design, manufacturing, and mission operations through data-driven tools. We seek engineers who are curious, collaborative, and driven to deliver mission-critical software that connects engineering, production, and mission control.

You will design reliable data solutions, optimize database systems, and collaborate across disciplines to scale our data infrastructure for satellites from LEO to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics or a STEM discipline or 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years with relational databases such as MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake.
• 2+ years with hosted database solutions such as AWS RDS, AWS PostgreSQL.
• 1+ years of working experience with CI/CD deployment.
• Working experience with Docker.
• Working experience with Kubernetes (prefer AWS EKS).
• Working experience with REST API.

Responsibilities

• Support highly reliable data solutions used across K2 Space — from factory floors to mission control.
• Maintain data design that improve how we design, build, and operate our spacecraft.
• Partner closely with engineers, business partners, and leaders across disciplines to understand their challenges and design efficient solutions.
• Maintain data solution to ensure high availability and correctness.
• Use data to drive prioritization of work and design of solutions to create the largest positive impact.
• Actively contribute to building a culture of transparency, empathy, integrity, and engineering excellence.
• Actively learning from staff members and help team members build good culture and engineering practices.

Skills

CI/CD deployment

Data design

Collaborative engineering

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics or a STEM discipline

Tools

MS SQL

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

AWS RDS

AWS PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

REST API

Job description

K2 Space Corporation is building the largest and highest-powered satellites, and our software team enables design, manufacturing, and mission operations through data-driven tools. We seek engineers who are curious, collaborative, and driven to deliver mission-critical software that connects engineering, production, and mission control.

You will design reliable data solutions, optimize database systems, and collaborate across disciplines to scale our data infrastructure for satellites from LEO to