Software Engineer

Lanteris Space Systems is seeking a Software Engineer to strengthen its Ground Software team. In this role, you’ll build, deploy, and maintain telemetry and commanding products that support spacecraft operations, with the flexibility of working from Palo Alto, CA (remote). Expect meaningful engineering work across modern full-stack development, automated testing, and the modernization of legacy ground systems.

What you’ll do

• Develop frontend and backend software for a spacecraft ground software system within an agile team environment
• Design and modernize software solutions used during assembly, integration, and test for satellite manufacturing
• Conduct peer reviews and author test cases and procedures to verify software functionality
• Document and maintain architectures, requirements, algorithms, and system interfaces
• Join software requirements evaluation, generation, design, implementation, and testing discussions
• Collaborate with flight software, integration & test (I&T), and mission operations teams to understand user needs
• Identify opportunities to transition legacy-based systems into modern, high-performance, reliable software architectures
• Share knowledge to help grow other software engineers
• Provide on-call support by responding to incidents and anomalies, along with improved automated performance monitoring and alerting

What you bring

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field
• Minimum 2 years of professional software development experience, or a Graduate degree in a STEM field
• Programming experience with at least two of: C++, Java, Python
• Familiarity with DevOps concepts including infrastructure as code, CI/CD tools, and containerization
• Experience building services on AWS

Tools you may work with

• C++, Java, Python
• AWS, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containerization
• MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB
• JUnit, PyTest, Boost
• Tcl/Tk, React

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Health and welfare insurance
• 401(k) to eligible employees

Compensation (U.S. pay transparency)

Salary range for this position: USD 82,000 - 156,000 per year.

• Colorado: $82,000.00 - $136,000.00 annually
• New Jersey: $82,000.00 - $136,000.00 annually
• Delaware: $82,000.00 - $136,000.00 annually
• Washington, DC metropolitan area: $90,000.00 - $150,000.00 annually
• California: $94,000.00 - $156,000.00 annually
• All other states: ranges vary using geographic cost of labor as an input

Application window

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If reposted, it will remain posted three days from the repost date and continue until filled.