Software Engineer II - Operations & Telemetry for Space Missions

Rocket Lab USA; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top tier medical HMO

PPO & a 100% company-sponsored medical

Dental and vision coverage

3 weeks paid vacation and 5 days sick

11 paid holidays

Flexible spending accounts

Paid parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k) with company match

Company equity

Discounted employee stock purchase

Subsidized EV charging stations

Onsite gym

Food and drinks

Other discounts

Job summary

Rocket Lab USA is seeking a Software Engineer II - Operations Software to develop and maintain telemetry processing and mission operations software at the Long Beach headquarters. You will work on software used to launch rockets and manage on-orbit operations, contributing across telemetry ingestion, processing, and data management pipelines with a focus on reliability and performance.

The role requires a degree in software engineering or related field, at least two years of experience, and

Qualifications

• Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or similar.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience within a related field.
• Golang Development

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain user facing software that is used to launch rockets and perform on-orbit operations for spacecraft.
• Develop and maintain software to ingest, process and store telemetry data.
• Perform independent engineering as allocated and may have product ownership as a responsible engineer.
• Develop documentation for operation of software products.
• Coordinate with stakeholders.

Skills

Golang Development

Education

Degree in Software Engineering, CS, EE or similar

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD systems

C# / Angular development

User Interface development

Job description

Rocket Lab USA is seeking a Software Engineer II - Operations Software to develop and maintain telemetry processing and mission operations software at the Long Beach headquarters. You will work on software used to launch rockets and manage on-orbit operations, contributing across telemetry ingestion, processing, and data management pipelines with a focus on reliability and performance.

The role requires a degree in software engineering or related field, at least two years of experience, and