Satellite Onboard Software Engineer: Linux & Containers

Loft Orbital Solutions; Golden (CO); On-site; USD 144,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

FSA/HSA

Parental leave

401(k) & equity

Catered lunches

Relocation assistance

International exposure

Flexible time off

Job summary

Loft Orbital Solutions is seeking an engineer for its Onboard Software group in Golden, CO. You will work across Linux internals, container runtimes, and CI pipelines to ship software used in our satellite fleet.

Responsibilities include evolving our bundle management tool, hardening onboard Linux infrastructure, and advancing the Runtime Container Environment to run partner workloads securely in orbit. You will own features from concept to delivery with a focus on reliability and scalability.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or similar runtimes).
• Deep Linux system knowledge: boot process, service management, filesystem layout, and failure recovery.
• 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

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and evolve our bundle management tool — the tool that resolves package dependencies, assembles mission‑specific software stacks, and enables the Solutions team to spin up and maintain an ever‑growing number of satellite programs.
• Develop and harden our onboard Linux infrastructure: how services are deployed on the rootfs, what system manages their execution, and how we ensure reliable and recoverable Linux operation in orbit.
• Evolve our Runtime Container Environment — the container manager and the full stack around it (base images, container registry service) — enabling partner and customer workloads to run securely onboard our vehicles.
• Support scaling of the deployment pipeline as new hardware platforms are added and the number of active satellite programs grows.
• Contribute to Product Validation — as the last step in the development pipeline, the team plays a key role in validating software readiness before it goes to orbit.
• Design, implement, and refine software with a high degree of ownership, driving features from concept through delivery.
• Participate in code reviews, design proposals, and the continuous improvement of development processes

Skills

Docker/Kubernetes

Linux internals

CI/CD

Git workflows

Embedded systems

Python

Tools

Yocto

systemd

CUE cuelang

Go

Rust

Job description

Loft Orbital Solutions is seeking an engineer for its Onboard Software group in Golden, CO. You will work across Linux internals, container runtimes, and CI pipelines to ship software used in our satellite fleet.

Responsibilities include evolving our bundle management tool, hardening onboard Linux infrastructure, and advancing the Runtime Container Environment to run partner workloads securely in orbit. You will own features from concept to delivery with a focus on reliability and scalability.