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Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (SRE) at Loft Orbital

Golden, CO or San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $180,000–$180,000🗓 2026-09-01 → 2026-09-26

Core

Operate the ground segment for a satellite fleet using SatDevOps practices, ensuring reliability and observability for Earth observation and IoT missions.

Role type

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (SRE)

Builds

Hybrid cloud infrastructure on GCP + Kubernetes for spacecraft control and mission operations

Domain

Aerospace / Satellite Operations / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

GCP, Kubernetes, Go/Python/Rust/C++/Java, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Observability stack design, High Availability system design

Preferred skills

FinOps, Security tooling, Resource-constrained environment orchestration

Responsibilities

Provision hybrid cloud infrastructure using IaC, manage observability stack across ground and flight systems, perform RCAs and fault tolerance analysis, design and maintain software-defined networking, build developer tooling for flight software teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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