Data Platform Software Engineer, Muon Space
$95-195k
+ Equity.
End-to-end space systems provider
Job no longer available
End-to-end space systems provider
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$95-195k
+ Equity.
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make Earth Intelligence accessible to help protect our planet's people, climate and ecosystem.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience building and maintaining container orchestration software platform
- Experience using CI/CD processes for software and GitOps processes for infrastructure
- Experience using modern time series DB and Grafana for application and infrastructure monitoring
- Experience interacting with internal and external customers and service providers
Desirable
- Experience building APIs for data access
- Experience with common geospatial data formats (HDF5, NIST, COG, …)
- Experience building data indexing and data lineage solutions
- Experience working with a distributed team of developers
- Experience working with SaaS providers of core infrastructure services
- Experience developing products from geospatial data (including non-imagery data types)
- Experience developing retrieval algorithms for or products from satellite Earth observation data
What the job involves
- Muon Space is building an expert team that is designing and generating value-added products from Earth observations from Muon’s constellation of low Earth orbit satellites and other geospatial datasets
- The Data Platform Software Engineer will be a key player on the Muon Data Platform Team to support the development and operations of a reliable software container platform for hosting data and machine learning pipelines
- This role will collaborate closely with data and software engineers and geospatial, scientific, and machine learning product developers to incorporate scalable cloud resources and modern software engineering practices into Muon’s product development process in order to meet Muon’s goals in monitoring and addressing climate chang
- Build and maintain Muon’s data platform container orchestration infrastructure
- Work with product developers to build and maintain data and machine learning pipelines
- Support continuous improvement of software engineering processes for building, deploying, and monitoring data and machine learning pipelines
- Provide expert support on data platform usage and best practices to product developers and scientists
- Integrate data platform resources with Muon’s wider cloud infrastructure
- Maintain expert knowledge of data platform solutions
Our take
Developing and operating satellites represents a significant challenge. Many organizations need accurate, space-based data but lack the resources or expertise to build their own spacecraft or manage the necessary ground systems and data processing.
To tackle this issue, Muon Space provides a service called Muon Halo. This allows customers to access satellite data without having to handle the technical details of satellite construction or operation. Muon offers end-to-end solutions, including building and launching satellites, managing operations, and processing collected data.
Muon has contracts with major customers like the US Air Force and US Space Force. It is supported by considerable funding that is being invested into scaling operations across satellite production, the deployment of its automated constellation operations platform, and expansion of its global ground station network.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2025
$44.5m
SERIES B
Aug 2024
$56.7m
SERIES B
Total funding: $146.2m
Company benefits
- 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for employees; 50% coverage for dependents (Concierge Medical offered through One Medical where available)
- Parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
- Generous time off policy
- 401(k) plan through Betterment and equity management through Carta
- Fully stocked kitchen at our HQ and we cater lunch 3 days per week
- Dog-friendly office
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Pascal Stang
(CTO & Co-founder)Previously a Director of the Autonomous Vehicle Division at Lyft. Prior to that, they were a Flight Vehicle Area Tech Lead at Google and a Satellite Systems Architect at Terra Bella.
Dan McCleese
(Chief Scientist & Co-founder)Previously worked at NASA for over 23 years in a number of roles including Mars Climate Sounder/MRO, Principal Investigator and Chief Scientist. They also worked at Calltech as a Climate Modelling Alliance Project Manager.
Paul Day
(VP of Spacecraft Production & Co-founder)Previously the CPO at Loft Orbital. They also worked as an Engineering Program Manager at Apple and as a Technical Program Manager at Google.
Reuben Rohrschneider
(Chief Mission Architect & Co-founder)Graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a PhD in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering. Previously worked at Ball Aerospace for over 14 years as a Mission Systems Engineer then Principal Mission Systems and Architect Engineer.
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