Senior Ground Software Engineer

E-Space is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Ground Software team. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to build the mission-critical software that powers our satellite constellation operations. You will develop highly available, highly-scalable backend systems using Python in an API-first, event-driven architecture deployed in the cloud using containerized solutions.

Working on greenfield projects, you'll be responsible for the entire software development lifecycle—from system design and architecture to hands-on coding and infrastructure implementation. This role combines technical leadership with deep engineering work, making foundational decisions that will scale with our growing constellation.

What you will be doing:

• Design and architect scalable backend systems and event-driven microservices for satellite operations
• Build high-performance APIs for mission-critical command and control operations
• Create workflow orchestration systems for automated satellite and ground procedures
• Develop scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines for high-rate satellite telemetry and command streams
• Collaborate to establish software engineering and Dev Ops best practices, including code reviews, testing standards, and architectural guidelines

• No telecommuting
• No Agencies Please

What you bring to the role:

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building scalable web applications and microservices
• Proficiency with microservices architecture, message queues, gRPC, and protobufs
• Expertise in Python with modern frameworks (FastAPI, Pydantic, SQL Alchemy), asynchronous programming patterns, and API development
• Experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures and workflow orchestration systems
• Solid understanding of AWS services, Postgre
  
  SQL, and container-based deployment solutions
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern software development practices
• Experience with message bus systems (Kafka, MQTT) and in-memory databases for real-time data processing
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Open Tofu), monitoring/observability tools, and high-availability system design
• Experience with high-throughput data processing and performance optimization for mission-critical applications
• Strong system design skills with ability to make architectural decisions for scalable distributed systems

Bonus Points for the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms
• Knowledge of time-series databases
• Background in aerospace, defense, or other mission-critical industries
• Strong intellectual curiosity and commitment to continuous learning
• Exceptional attention to detail and an ownership mentality

US Persons Only due to ITAR requirements

Ready to make connectivity from space universally accessible, secure and actionable? Then you’ve come to the right place!

E-Space is bridging Earth and space to enable hyper-scaled deployments of space-powered Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and services. We are fundamentally changing the design, economics, manufacturing, coverage limitations and service deliveryassociated with traditional satellite and terrestrial IoT systems.

By building a highly-advanced low Earth orbit (LEO) space system—with a unique antenna design, highly sustainable spacecraft system and low-cost, small portable end-user devices—we can extend global satellite coverage, capacity and connectivity beyond legacy space services to provide a new kind of IoT platform that lets users sense, track, connect and act on information gathered, anywhere.

We’re intentional, we’re unapologetically curious and we’re 100% committed to saving space, protecting our planet and turning connectivity into actionable intelligence.

We are redefining how satellites are designed, manufactured and used—so we’re looking for candidates with passion, deep knowledge and direct experience on LEO satellite component development, design and in-orbit activities. If that’s your experience – then we’ll be immediately wow-ed.

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