Senior Backend Engineer: Space Command & Control (Hybrid)

EVONA; Arvada (CO); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EVONA in Denver/Arvada, Colorado is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the command-and-control software that links a modern ground platform with spacecraft and remote systems.

This role sits at the intersection of backend services, distributed systems and machine-to-machine communication, with software that formats, transmits, validates and routes commands and telemetry between ground applications and spacecraft.

Qualifications

• At least three years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong production experience with Python and/or Rust.
• Experience building backend services, APIs or distributed applications.
• Experience integrating software with remote hardware, devices or external systems.
• Understanding of communication protocols and message formats.
• Experience with serialization, packetization, framing or structured data processing.

Responsibilities

• Build command-and-control services primarily using Python and/or Rust.
• Translate interface-control documents and protocol specifications into production software.
• Develop command encoders and telemetry decoders.
• Implement serialization, packetization, message framing and validation.
• Build reusable adapters for different spacecraft and communication protocols.
• Route commands and telemetry between backend services, ground stations and remote systems.
• Handle acknowledgements, retries, timeouts, malformed messages and communication-state changes.
• Process continuous or high-rate telemetry streams.
• Design APIs and services supporting mission and ground-system operations.
• Troubleshoot issues across application software, protocols, networks and connected hardware.
• Build simulators and testing tools for spacecraft and ground-system integrations.
• Deploy and support services within containerized and distributed environments.
• Own capabilities from requirements and architecture through testing, deployment and production support.
• Collaborate with backend, platform, mission integration and aerospace engineering teams.

Skills

Python

Rust

Backend services

APIs

Distributed systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

gRPC

REST

Job description

EVONA in Denver/Arvada, Colorado is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the command-and-control software that links a modern ground platform with spacecraft and remote systems.

This role sits at the intersection of backend services, distributed systems and machine-to-machine communication, with software that formats, transmits, validates and routes commands and telemetry between ground applications and spacecraft.