Satellite Ground Software Engineer (Remote)

Lanteris Space LLC; Palo Alto (CA); Remote; USD 94,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Lanteris Space Systems seeks a Software Engineer to join the Ground Software team. The role supports telemetry and commanding for multiple satellite programs, with flexibility to be based in Palo Alto or work remotely within the U.S.

The successful candidate will build scalable software for spacecraft operations and collaborate across flight software, I&T, and mission ops teams. Responsibilities cover full-stack development, peer reviews, and documentation of architectures and interfaces.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field.
• 2 years professional software development experience or a Graduate degree in a STEM field.
• Programming experience with at least two of the following: C++, Java and Python
• Familiarity with DevOps concepts such as infrastructure as code, CI/CD tools, and containerization
• Experience building services on AWS

Responsibilities

• Develop frontend and backend software for a spacecraft ground software system within an agile team environment
• Design and modernize software solutions for assembly, integration and test during the manufacture of satellites
• Perform peer reviews and create test cases and procedures to verify software functionality
• Document and maintain architectures, requirements, algorithms, and system interfaces
• Participate in software requirements evaluation, generation, design, implementation, and testing discussions
• Collaborate with flight software, integration & test (I&T), and mission operations teams to understand user needs
• Identify opportunities to transition legacy-based systems into modern, high-performance, reliable software architectures
• Share your knowledge as you help grow your fellow software engineer team members
• Respond to incidents and anomalies through on-call support and improved automated performance monitoring & alerting

Skills

C++

Java

Python

DevOps

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Containerization

React

JUnit

PyTest

Boost

Postgres

MySQL

DynamoDB

Job description

Lanteris Space Systems seeks a Software Engineer to join the Ground Software team. The role supports telemetry and commanding for multiple satellite programs, with flexibility to be based in Palo Alto or work remotely within the U.S.

The successful candidate will build scalable software for spacecraft operations and collaborate across flight software, I&T, and mission ops teams. Responsibilities cover full-stack development, peer reviews, and documentation of architectures and interfaces.