Senior Application Software Engineer

K2 Space; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in the company

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid parental leave

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Job summary

K2 Space is seeking a Senior Application Software Engineer for our Enterprise Team in Los Angeles. You will design and build mission-critical software that enhances engineering and operations, directly impacting satellite design and production.

Your responsibilities include developing reliable software solutions and collaborating with engineering teams. The position requires a Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or equivalent experience, alongside strong software development skills.

A competitive salary of $160,000 - $200,000 plus equity and comprehensive benefits package are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in full stack development or platform engineering.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS.
• Strong working experience with REST API or gRPC.

Responsibilities

• Develop highly reliable software solutions.
• Create applications for spacecraft design and operation.
• Partner with engineers to understand challenges and design solutions.

Skills

Full stack development

API development

AWS

CI/CD (GH Actions, Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD)

Docker

Kubernetes

C#, Go, Java, C++, TypeScript

PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake

NoSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB

REST API or gRPC

JFrog Artifactory, AWS CodeArtifact

Terraform, Ansible, Puppet

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or STEM

8+ years of professional experience in software engineering

Job description

The Role

As a Senior Application Software Engineer on our Enterprise Team, you will design and build mission‑critical software that connects engineering, manufacturing, and operations. Your work will directly enable accelerated satellite design, rapid production, and reliable mission execution. You’ll collaborate closely with teams throughout K2 Space and deliver systems that improve efficiency, scale operations, and support ambitious missions.

Responsibilities

• Develop highly reliable software solutions used across K2 Space — from factory floors to mission control.
• Create and evolve applications 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.
• Build prototypes to test concepts, validate technical constraints and progress to production features.
• Own full‑lifecycle feature development from inception to happy customers.
• Actively contribute to software architecture design, deployment strategy, coding standards and quality processes.
• Understand trade‑offs in competing engineering options and be able to articulate these trade‑offs to senior leadership to help drive decisions.
• Work with customers to drive adoption and make progress on product usability.
• 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 mentor other staff members and help team members build good culture and engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics or a STEM discipline or 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in full stack development, platform engineering or API development.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS.
• 3+ years of in-depth working experience with CI/CD such as GH Actions, Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD.
• Working experience with Docker.
• In-depth working experience with Kubernetes (prefer AWS EKS).
• Expert working experience with one or more of the following static typed programming languages such as C#, Go, Java, C++, TypeScript.
• 3+ years of experience with structured database such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake or similar technologies.
• Working experience with unstructured database such as NoSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB or similar.
• Strong working experience with REST API or gRPC.
• Strong working experience with binary management platforms such as JFrog Artifactory, AWS CodeArtifact or similar technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure orchestration and management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).

Nice to Have

• Experience with Next.js, React, Angular, or similar frameworks.
• Working experience with testing tool such as Cucumber and Cypress.
• Experience designing scalable, high‑performance software systems.
• Knowledge of build systems and package management tools (e.g., Make, Gradle, npm, pip).
• Familiarity with data streaming technologies like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range for this role is $160,000 - $200,000 + equity in the company.
• Salary will be based on several factors including, but not limited to: knowledge and skills, education, and experience level.
• Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision/coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks.

Export Compliance

As defined in the ITAR, “U.S. Persons” include U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents (i.e., Green Card holders), and certain protected individuals (e.g., refugees/asylees, American Samoans). Please consult with a knowledgeable advisor if you are unsure whether you are a “U.S. Person.” The person hired for this role will have access to information and items controlled by U.S. export control regulations, including the export control regulations outlined in the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR). The person hired for this role must therefore either be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.

Equal Opportunity

K2 Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with K2 Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.