Senior Space Ground Software Engineer

E-Space; Saratoga (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

E-Space in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Ground Software team. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to build mission-critical software powering our satellite constellation, developing scalable Python backends in an API-first, event-driven cloud environment.

From system design to hands-on coding, you will architect real-time pipelines, manage MQTT/Kafka messaging, and drive DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building scalable backend systems for telemetry ingestion and real-time data processing.
• Experience with microservices, message queues, gRPC, and protobufs.
• Expert Python with FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy; async programming; API development.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale a Python-based Ground Data System with microservices.
• Build binary protocol pipelines for CCSDS spacecraft communication.
• Own messaging infrastructure; optimize MQTT broker performance.
• Build high-performance APIs for command and control operations.
• Create workflow orchestration for automated satellite and ground procedures.
• Integrate with ground stations and cloud for scalable data ingestion.
• Establish DevOps and testing standards.
• Collaborate with Flight Software, Payload, and Mission Operations Teams.

Skills

Backend software engineering

Python

Microservices

Asyncio

API development

gRPC

protobufs

AWS

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

CI/CD

Telemetry ingestion

Real-time data processing

Event-driven architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

FastAPI

Pydantic

SQLAlchemy

InfluxDB/TimescaleDB

Kafka

MQTT

Terraform/OpenTofu

Docker

Job description

E-Space in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Ground Software team. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to build mission-critical software powering our satellite constellation, developing scalable Python backends in an API-first, event-driven cloud environment.

From system design to hands-on coding, you will architect real-time pipelines, manage MQTT/Kafka messaging, and drive DevOps practices.