Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today, Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe— large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military. With five satellites on orbit and many more set to launch soon, the company is servicing a backlog of more than $1 billion of commercial contracts.
Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent requirements for uptime, data security, network visibility, and customization. Astranis has raised over $750 million from some of the world’s best investors, from Andreessen Horowitz to Blackrock and Fidelity, and employs a team of 450 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs, builds, and operates its satellites out of its 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA.
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer focused on Network Software, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the software that will enable us to design, build and manage Satellite and ground Networks. The tools you build will be used by our customers to view the performance of satellites and internally to plan, design and optimize our satellite networks and its performance.
This role will contribute to both commercial and US Government programs.
Role- Lead the design, build, and implementation of Satellite and network management software
- Own backend and UI development for internal tools across test infrastructure, mission control, and business operations
- Build intuitive web-based UIs for telemetry dashboards, test orchestration, command execution, and workflow monitoring.
- Automate manual workflows to increase operational velocity across engineering, network, and satellite operations.
- Work closely with the mission operations teams to create software that helps design, build and manage Satellites and Networks
- Design high-performance, reliable, mission-critical software that sends commands to space
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define software requirements, architectures, and designs
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 7+ years of experience as a full stack developer in industry
- Experience with system level architecture and big data design
- Strong Proficiency with React JavaScript/TypeScript and Python
- Experience with FastAPI or similar frameworks
- Experience working with relational/SQL databases (e.g. Postgres)
- Experience designing and maintaining REST or GraphQL APIs.
- Comfortable rapidly prototyping and fully developing user interface concepts with focus on overall user experience
- Comfortable diving into all layers to implement both front-end and back-end components of new features
- Experience deploying backend services to cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP).
- Comfortable working in Linux, using shell tools, and managing source control with Git.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or other container-based deployment strategies.
- Highly motivated, self-starting, and able to perform duties autonomously without supervision
- Experience with developing high availability systems
- Experience with C++
- Experience in Satellite operations / Network Management Software
- Experience with application deployment operations and release/version management (CI/CD) and cluster management
- Experience with design systems and rapid UI prototyping for internal tooling.
Base pay is just one component of Astranis’s total rewards package. Your compensation also includes a significant equity package via incentive stock options, high-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.
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Astranis Space Technologies San Francisco, California, USA Office
575 20th St,, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94107
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