Senior Space Ground Software Architect

rocketlab; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Job summary

Rocket Lab is seeking a Senior Ground Software Engineer II to act as a technical authority for spacecraft ground software across Space Systems missions. Based in Long Beach, CA, you will shape end-to-end ground system architecture and drive scalability, reliability, and mission success for internal teams and customers.

You will collaborate with flight software, operations, and systems engineers to design scalable ground systems, and lead efforts in monitoring, reliability, and maintainability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or other technical discipline.
• 8+ years of relevant work experience in professional software development.
• Proven track record architecting web-based software systems at scale.
• Strong systems-level thinking with focus on performance, security, and maintainability.
• U.S. citizenship is required, due to program requirements.
• Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain and maintain one.

Responsibilities

• Own major parts of architecture and evolve Rocket Lab's web-based ground software platforms for spacecraft operations.
• Partner with flight software developers, mission operations personnel, and engineers to translate mission needs into scalable ground designs.
• Deploy, configure, and optimize the Ground Data System for diverse mission profiles.
• Establish robust monitoring, alerting, and reliability frameworks to detect and mitigate issues.

Skills

architecting web-based software

systems-level thinking

leadership in end-to-end system design

Git-based workflows

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes orchestration

OAuth / authentication standards

Playwright

FastAPI

Python

Golang

Rust

TypeScript

Angular

InfluxDB

PostgreSQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical discipline

Tools

Python

Golang

Rust

TypeScript

Angular

InfluxDB

PostgreSQL

Playwright

FastAPI

Kubernetes

OAuth

Job description

Rocket Lab is seeking a Senior Ground Software Engineer II to act as a technical authority for spacecraft ground software across Space Systems missions. Based in Long Beach, CA, you will shape end-to-end ground system architecture and drive scalability, reliability, and mission success for internal teams and customers.

You will collaborate with flight software, operations, and systems engineers to design scalable ground systems, and lead efforts in monitoring, reliability, and maintainability