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Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (SRE) at Loft Orbital

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Loft Orbital | Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (SRE)

About Loft Orbital

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. We have had 30+ missions flown since 2017, our fleet is on track for 30 satellites by 2027, and we have offices in SF, Golden, and Toulouse.

About the Role

Our Cloud Infrastructure team runs the ground segment that talks to the fleet. This is an SRE role with a twist: we apply DevOps practices to spacecraft control (we call it SatDevOps), and we'll train you to operate the satellites.

Responsibilities

  • Hybrid cloud infra on GCP + Kubernetes: provisioning (IaC), CI/CD, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux).
  • Observability stack: Managing Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and tracing across ground and flight systems.
  • Reliability: Conducting RCAs, fault tolerance, performance tuning, and prioritizing long-term fixes over patches.
  • Networking: Software-defined networking between ground stations, cloud, and mission ops.
  • Developer experience: Building tooling and environments for the flight software and ops teams.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with public cloud (ideally GCP).
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes.
  • Proficiency in at least one backend language (Go, Python, Rust, C++, or Java).
  • Experience with IaC and CI/CD in production environments.
  • Ability to design HA systems and operate them.
  • Nice to have: Experience with FinOps, security tooling, and orchestration in resource-constrained environments.

Benefits

  • 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.

How to Apply

Apply via this link and mention HN in your application.

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