Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer; SRE
Listed on 2026-09-05
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, SRE/Site Reliability, Systems Engineer
Loft Orbital | Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (SRE) | Golden, CO or San Francisco, CA | $180k-$240k + equity | Loft builds and operates shareable satellites so customers can fly a payload without building a spacecraft. We integrate, launch, and operate the mission end to end:
Earth observation, IoT, on-orbit AI, national security. 30+ missions flown since 2017, fleet on track for 30 satellites by 2027, offices in SF, Golden, and Toulouse. Our Cloud Infrastructure team runs the ground segment that talks to the fleet. This is an SRE role with a twist: we apply Dev Ops practices to spacecraft control (we call it Sat Dev Ops ), and we'll train you to operate the satellites.
you'd own:
- Hybrid cloud infra on GCP + Kubernetes: provisioning (IaC), CI/CD, Git Ops (ArgoCD/Flux)
- The observability stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, tracing) across ground and flight systems
- Reliability: RCAs, fault tolerance, performance tuning, long-term fixes over patches
- Software-defined networking between ground stations, cloud, and mission ops
- Developer experience: tooling and environments for the flight software and ops teams
strong public cloud (ideally GCP), deep Kubernetes, one backend language (Go/Python/Rust/C++/Java), IaC + CI/CD in anger, and someone who can design HA systems and then run them. Nice to have:
Fin Ops, security tooling, orchestration in resource-constrained environments.
- 100% company-paid medical/dental/vision for you and dependents
- 401(k) + equity
- flexible PTO + 12 holidays
- 14/10 weeks paid parental leave
- daily catered lunch
- relocation assistance
- time with the team in France
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