Job Description

Loft Orbital is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to maintain and scale their ground segment infrastructure, collaborating across development, operations, and IT to ensure reliable space operations. This role involves applying DevOps principles to spacecraft control (SatDevOps) and automating systems within a hybrid cloud environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers and satellite operators
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure
• Improve developer experience with tools and workflows
• Automate systems (CI/CD, IaC, deployments)
• Evolve observability stack
• Implement reliability best practices
• Investigate and resolve system issues
• Partner on Software Defined Networking solutions
• Contribute to a collaborative team culture

Requirements

• Strong public cloud experience (GCP preferred)
• Kubernetes expertise
• Scalable systems design experience
• Software Defined Networking familiarity
• Observability stack experience (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
• Proficiency in Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, or Java
• DevOps practices (CI/CD, IaC, automation)
• Experience in fast-paced environments
• Problem-solving and independent operation skills
• Strong communication skills

Benefits

• No benefits