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DevOps / System Reliability Engineer

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San Francisco
Salary: Not specified
Fully-remote

Loft Orbital
Loft Orbital

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At Loft Orbital, we have just successfully launched our first two satellites that we fly and operate ourselves. We are now actively looking for Site Reliability Engineers to join and help us build the next missions and the apps to test and pilot our spacecraft! 🛰️🛰️🛰️

We are based in San Francisco (California), Golden (Colorado) and Toulouse (France), and will consider remote positions.

About Loft Orbital

Loft Orbital provides the fastest and simplest path to orbit for organizations that require information from space. We operate satellites, fly customer payloads onboard, and handle the entire mission from initial concept through in-orbit operations. This service is powered by our hardware and software products that enable any payload to fly on a standard satellite, reducing the lead-time and risk of a traditional space mission. Our standard interfacing and mission operations products enable us to fly any kind of payload, such as imagers, RF systems, scientific experiments, national security missions, in-orbit demonstrations, and weather and climate sensors.  Our customers trust us to manage their space infrastructure, so they can focus on what matters most to them: operate their mission and collect their data.

We build “shareable” satellites to make it easier and faster for our customers to access space.

This means that we embark multiple customers on the same satellite to do things like take pictures, support IoT connectivity, act as blockchain nodes, etc. By doing so, we can fit customers into both missions already planned for launch, or satellites already deployed in space!

This service is powered by our hardware and software products that provide standardized interfaces to our customers, reducing the lead-time and risk of a traditional space mission.

What’s also special about Loft is that our devs get a satellite pilot training and certification. We believe to achieve the best, we need to eat our own dogfood. So when ready, you will be given the chance to play a role in satellite operations. We call this – brace yourself – being a “SatDevOps” !!! It’s pretty unique, especially when you finally get to take your very first own picture of Earth from space!

At Loft, you'll be given the autonomy and ownership to solve significant challenges, but with a close-knit and supportive team at your back. We believe that diversity and community are the foundation of an open culture. We are committed to hiring the best people regardless of background and make their time at Loft the most fulfilling period of their career.  With a wave of exciting customer traction, we are scaling up quickly across our teams and within our three offices located in San Francisco, CA; Golden, CO; and Toulouse, France.

Want to join the adventure?

Our tech team has talented individual contributors both in the US and in Europe. We need talents why high quality standards that will help bring value to our customers by delivering resilience and reliability to our platforms.

*Even if you don't "check all the boxes", we strongly encourage you to still apply.

At Loft, you will be able to:

  • Develop, deploy and maintain observability solutions, we keep an eyes on our production stacks and prevent issues from happening
  • Assist teams by troubleshooting issues or conduct investigation with regard to performance, stability or resiliency
  • Keep our procedures, backup and disaster recovery plans up to date
  • In collaboration with teams, help to bake resilience and automation in all solutions that will support our applications and platforms.
  • There is a good chance you will love this job if you are curious about or already master:

  • Managed Kubernetes clusters
  • Releasing and running services in multi-cloud environments
  • Using Vector to ship logs
  • Supporting observability with Stackdriver, Cloudwatch, ELK, prometheus
  • Infra as code with terraform, cuelang and config-connector
  • Gitlab CI pipelines
  • Writing software to support SRE activities
  • Some of Our Awesome Benefits:

  • Comprehensive dental, medical and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan and equity
  • Daily catered lunches
  • Cross office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse, France
  • Generous maternity and paternity leave
  • Off-sites and many happy hours
  • Foreign language classes
  • We value kind, supportive and team-oriented collaborators. It is also crucial for us that you are a problem solver and a great communicator. As our team is international, you will need strong English skills to better collaborate, easily communicate complex ideas and convey important messages.