Ground Software Engineer - Space Ops & Cloud Microservices

Katalyst; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation bonus

Employee stock option plan

Comprehensive medical, vision, dental

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Job summary

Katalyst builds robotic spacecraft enabling dynamic space operations. We’re seeking engineers to own cloud-based, scalable microservice systems and mentor others while elevating code quality and testing. You’ll work on ground procedures, automation tooling, and cross-team collaboration to deliver reliable mission support.

Required: 3–8 years in cloud architecture with production owners, plus strong fluency in cloud, backend, frontend and streaming systems. ITAR compliance is essential.

Qualifications

• 3–8 years of cloud-based scalable microservice architecture.
• Experience owning services in production.
• Experience supporting mission-critical services.
• Deep technical fluency in cloud, backend, frontend, and streaming systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related STEM; Master’s preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review and understand current Ground stack.
• Understand and walk through current mission workflows.
• Identify gaps and potential technical debt.
• Train on console for upcoming mission operations.
• Own a code area within 30 days.
• Help create automated tooling to improve ground procedures.
• Mentor junior engineers.
• Be an advocate and example of testing and integrating work into other areas in the company.
• Help give technical expertise to fill out user stories and epics.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Back-end development

Front-end development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or STEM

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

AWS EKS

MSK

Timestream

S3

Batch

EventBridge

Python

C++

React

Tailwind

Redis

Kafka

Influx

QuestDB

MongoDB

Git

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Katalyst builds robotic spacecraft enabling dynamic space operations. We’re seeking engineers to own cloud-based, scalable microservice systems and mentor others while elevating code quality and testing. You’ll work on ground procedures, automation tooling, and cross-team collaboration to deliver reliable mission support.

Required: 3–8 years in cloud architecture with production owners, plus strong fluency in cloud, backend, frontend and streaming systems. ITAR compliance is essential.