Software Engineer, Open Cosmos
Ground Segment
Satellite-based solutions
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Satellite-based solutions
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To put satellites and the data they gather at the service of solving the biggest global challenges.
Role
Who you are
- It’s a highly collaborative environment where ideas become real hardware, software, and data solutions that deliver impact from space
- Strong programming capability in Go (Golang) and Python (or comparable backend languages)
- Ability to build and maintain backend services and APIs that are reliable, testable and maintainable
- Solid understanding of containerisation with Docker and running services on Kubernetes
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL including schema design, querying and performance considerations
- Familiarity with messaging and asynchronous communication patterns (e.g. RabbitMQ)
- Understanding of API design using REST and/or gRPC
- Knowledge of automated testing practices and CI/CD pipelines
- Awareness of monitoring, logging and observability concepts
- Confidence debugging issues in distributed systems using a structured approach
What the job involves
- The CTO division is where Open Cosmos technology comes to life
- Covering engineering, product development, and technical innovation, the team designs, builds, and operates the satellites, systems, and platforms that make our missions possible
- Our Ground Segment team builds and runs the software that powers Open Cosmos missions
- This role develops, deploys and maintains backend services that sit at the heart of mission operations
- You’ll contribute to system design, deliver reliable and scalable components, and ensure high standards of performance and code quality
- Working closely with satellite operators, product stakeholders and engineering teams, you’ll build robust backend systems that meet the real-world demands and constraints of space missions
- Implementing and maintaining backend services and APIs used in satellite and mission operations
- Contributing to technical design discussions and supporting the evolution of backend architecture
- Translating operational and product requirements into reliable, production-ready software components
- Writing clean, maintainable and well-tested code aligned with engineering standards
- Supporting the development and operation of microservices-based systems
- Deploying and running services using containerisation and orchestration technologies
- Designing solutions that consider space-specific constraints such as latency, intermittent connectivity and fault tolerance
- Monitoring backend services, troubleshooting issues and contributing to incident resolution
- Supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated testing practices
- Participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives and technical reviews
Our take
Satellite data is critical in order to solve some of the world's most pressing matters, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity. While data and precise analytical tools able to draw insights are available, the problem is they lack interoperability between platforms and the ability to combine this data from different satellites is inaccessible.
Founded in 2015, Open Cosmos is a SpaceTech startup with the aim to simplify access to space. The company designs, manufactures and operates satellites that are part of its "Open Constellation". Meanwhile its platform, DataCosmos, makes satellite data access easier for organisations and governments, combining earth observation data from multiple sources to help with the mitigation of environmental and sustainability challenges.
Partnerships with organisations such as Innovate UK, ESA and the UK Space Agency are supporting Open Cosmos as it expands operations, growing its team and ideas. Most recently. the company revealed it will be manufacturing the first 6G satellite research lab, the 6GStarLab. A huge step for the company that will position it at the forefront of next-generation space-based communication.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2023
$6.8m
GRANT
Sep 2023
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $64.1m
Company benefits
- Open Cosmonaut Culture: Aim high go beyond is the OC mantra - our teams support each other pushing science to the limits, making the impossible, possible
- We're flexible!: Prefer to mostly WFH? That's fine! Hybrid? Great! Need to take 30 mins at 3pm to get the kids from school? Go ahead! We're more interested in your contributions than when and where you're working
- Our facilities: Working on our hardware? Look no further than our state of the art lab. Prefer to be in an office sometimes? All the time? Our office has everything you need for productive working, including drinks and snacks to keep you fuelled through the day
- Enhanced parental leave: Adding to your family is stressful enough without worrying about pay during those precious first few weeks and months. The UK team enjoy enhanced pay during parts of their statutory maternity, paternity or adoption leave
- Time off: Taking time off is important for our mental health - all our Open Cosmonauts have 25 days holiday in addition to national holidays
- Core Benefits: UK team members can enjoy Medicash, income protection and death in service benefits. Spain team members can enjoy access to a tax saving platform Cobee
- Career development: Having a successful team makes a successful company. We're at the forefront of technology so learning and building an enabling career for you is central to everyone's success
- Team days and social events: Getting to see our colleagues in person, especially when we work in different countries, is so important. We hold monthly team days, quarterly all company catch ups, summer parties and Christmas celebrations
Company HQ
Harwell, UK
Leadership
Rafel Jordá Siquier
(Founder & CEO)Previously, Rafel was an aerospace engineer at zero2infinity as well as a flight test center and flight line production engineer at Airbus Defence and Space. He was also the founder and coordinator of Upper Atmosphere Space Launcher.
Aleix Megias Homar
(Co-Founder & COO)Aleix has a professional history in engineering, having previously worked as a autonomous systems engineer for RAL Space, a flight dynamics engineer for Airbus Defence and Space as well as a systems engineer for the European Space Agency.
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