Technical Lead - Customer Test Infrastructure

Hello Software Engineer 👋At Loft Orbital, we have just successfully launched three satellites that we fly and operate ourselves. With 4 satellites on-orbit and a wave of exciting missions launching soon, we are scaling up quickly as a global company, with offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France.

We are now actively looking for Technical Lead - Customer Test Infrastructure to join our Test Infrastructure team and help us build the technology to drive success of our future missions. 🛰️ 🛰️ 🛰️

We are looking for this Software Engineer to work in our San Francisco, CA or Golden, CO office.

As a Technical Lead - Customer Test Infrastructure, you will primarily help design, develop and deploy our customer facing integration test products. Furthermore, being a lead, you will work help break down large problems into bite size chunks for the team to execute in sprints, releases and quarter. We are looking for engineers with a product mindset, who have a good grasp on software engineering principles and experience with setting up software infrastructures. Additionally, we are looking for someone who is:

• Able to work independently with some guidance. People owning their work is important to us!- Able to wear multiple hats as needs arise. We are a small company disrupting an entire industry! - Not afraid to get out of their comfort zone to explore and learn. Technologies are evolving at rapid rates, and we must stay relevant!
  Our culture at Loft Orbital promotes collaboration and ownership to our developers, fostering efforts hand to hand with other teams, internally and externally.
  Wanna join the adventure?
  *Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalized people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft, we value respectful debate and people who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t ‘check all the boxes. ### About This Role:
• Technical:
• Design, develop, deploy and lifecycle management of customer facing integration products.
• Collaborate with team members and drive decisions for software and deployment architectures.

• Provide architectural guidance and oversight to ensure the scalability, performance, and security of our products.

• Leadership:

• Work with multiple internal stakeholders to gather requirements. Then, break down large efforts and requirements into smaller tasks to achieve progress in an iterative manner.

• Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of trust, continuous improvement and innovation.

• Assist the product manager in product roadmap maintenance and release planning to ensure timely and successful product launches.

Must-Haves:

• 5+ years of experience in software development or architecture in a product development setting.
• Proficiency in Python and experience developing software in a product development environment.
• Strong experience working with Linux systems (For e.g., Ubuntu, Yocto).
• Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of how to create, configure, and manage containers, preferably Docker.

Nice-to-Haves

• Web service development experience.
• Experience leading software development projects.
• Experience writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
• Experience with security around deployments, such as image hardening.
• Experience deploying software to remote hardware in the field, over-the-air and in air-gapped environments
• Experience with Kubernetes