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K2 Space Corporation · 1 week ago

Senior Enterprise Software Engineer

Los Angeles, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$160K/yr - $200K/yr

8+ years exp

K2 Space Corporation is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown, unlocking unprecedented performance levels across every orbit. The Senior Enterprise Software Engineer will be responsible for developing the digital backbone that powers satellite design, manufacturing, and mission operations, ensuring efficient solutions that enable rapid progress from concept to orbit.

AerospaceMachinery ManufacturingManufacturingSpace Travel

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Develop highly reliable software solutions used across K2 Space — from factory floors to mission control

Create and evolve applications that improve how we design, build, and operate our spacecraft

Partner closely with engineers, business partners and leaders across disciplines to understand their challenges and design efficient solutions

Build prototypes to test concepts, validate technical constraints and progress to production features

Own full-lifecycle feature development from inception to happy customers

Actively contribute to software architecture design, deployment strategy, coding standards and quality processes

Understand tradeoffs in competing engineering options and be able to articulate these tradeoffs to senior leadership to help drive decisions

Work with customers to drive adoption and make progress on product usability

Use data to drive prioritization of work and design of solutions to create the largest positive impact

Actively contribute to building a culture of transparency, empathy, integrity and engineering excellence

Actively mentoring other staff members and help team members build good culture and engineering practices

Qualification

Full stack developmentAWSCI/CDKubernetesStatic typed programming languagesStructured databasesUnstructured databasesREST APIBinary management platformsInfrastructure orchestration toolsMentoringCollaborationProblem-solvingCommunication

Required

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics or a STEM discipline or 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering

5+ years of experience in full stack development, platform engineering or API development

3+ years of experience with AWS

3+ years of in-depth working experience with CI/CD such as GH Actions, Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD

Working experience with Docker

In-depth working experience with Kubernetes (prefer AWS EKS)

Expert working experience with one or more of the following static typed programming languages such as C#, Go, Java, C++, TypeScript

3+ years of experience with structured database such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake or similar technologies

Working experience with unstructured database such as NoSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB or similar

Strong working experience with REST API or gRPC

Strong working experience with binary management platforms such as JFrog Artifactory, AWS CodeArtifact or similar technologies

Experience with infrastructure orchestration and management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)