Spacecraft Ground Software Engineer

Katalyst Space Technologies; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation bonus

Stock options

Equity plan

Medical, vision, dental

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Katalyst Space Technologies is hiring to build and operate robust cloud-native ground systems. You will review the ground stack, walk mission workflows, identify gaps, and train for upcoming mission operations while shaping code quality and testing practices across teams.

You will own areas in production, contribute to automated tooling, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable mission-critical services within ITAR constraints.

Qualifications

• 3–8 years of cloud-based scalable microservice architecture.
• Experience owning services in production.
• Experience supporting mission-critical services.
• Deep technical fluency in cloud, backend, frontend, and streaming systems.

Responsibilities

• Review and understand current Ground stack.
• Understand and walk through current mission workflows.
• Identify gaps and potential technical debt.
• Train on console for upcoming mission operations.

Skills

Cloud-based microservice architecture

Production ownership

AWS stack (EKS MSK Timestream S3 Batch

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related STEM

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes (K8)

Git

CI/CD

React

Tailwind

Python

C++

MongoDB

Redis

Kafka

influx

QuestDB

Job description

Katalyst Space Technologies is hiring to build and operate robust cloud-native ground systems. You will review the ground stack, walk mission workflows, identify gaps, and train for upcoming mission operations while shaping code quality and testing practices across teams.

You will own areas in production, contribute to automated tooling, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable mission-critical services within ITAR constraints.