Onboard Satellite Software Engineer — Linux & Containers

Loftorbital; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full medical/dental/vision coverage

401(k) plan and equity options

Daily catered lunches

Job summary

Loft is seeking a savvy engineer to bridge Linux internals, container runtimes, and CI pipelines for onboard software in orbit. You will own deployment stacks, evolve the container environment, and harden Linux infrastructure as part of a growing team.

You’ll contribute to mission-specific software stacks, participate in validation, and help scale pipelines across platforms and hardware. Strong coding skills in Python and C++ are required, with Go/Rust familiarity a plus.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and Linux internals.
• 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.
• Understanding of software deployment strategies for critical systems (OTA updates, golden images, safe rollback).
• C++ knowledge and experience with CUE (cuelang).
• Familiarity with Go or Rust.
• Experience with embedded Linux: Yocto, device trees, systemd, ARM.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and evolve our bundle management tool and mission-specific software stacks.
• Develop and harden onboard Linux infrastructure for deployment and execution in orbit.
• Evolve the Runtime Container Environment and container registry services.
• Support scaling of the deployment pipeline as new hardware platforms are added.
• Contribute to Product Validation as the final gate before orbit.
• Design, implement, and refine software with ownership from concept to delivery.
• Participate in code reviews, design proposals, and process improvements.

Skills

Containerization

Linux system knowledge

CI/CD pipelines

Git workflows

Embedded or constrained systems

Python

OTA updates understanding

C++

CUE (cuelang)

Go or Rust

Embedded Linux (Yocto, device trees,系统

Unit test frameworks

Middleware frameworks

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

GitLab-CI

Jenkins

Job description

Loft is seeking a savvy engineer to bridge Linux internals, container runtimes, and CI pipelines for onboard software in orbit. You will own deployment stacks, evolve the container environment, and harden Linux infrastructure as part of a growing team.

You’ll contribute to mission-specific software stacks, participate in validation, and help scale pipelines across platforms and hardware. Strong coding skills in Python and C++ are required, with Go/Rust familiarity a plus.