Senior Software Engineer, LeoLabs
$175-200k
Mapping platform for space
Job no longer available
Mapping platform for space
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$175-200k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide data-driven transparency and certainty to satellite operators, regulators, space agencies, and industries that rely on satellite services.
Role
Who you are
- B.S., M.S in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 6+ years experience with Python in a SaaS platform
- Experience designing, building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines
- Experience with architecting and scaling fullstack or distributed backend systems
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with cloud deployment technologies, such as Kubernetes, Docker containers
- Experience with Postgres
- Deep understanding of good software development practices, agile practices, security, documentation and observability
- Worked with event driven systems, queuing mechanism
- Working experience with micro services
- Ability to work on-call outside of normal business hours during critical escalations
- Experience working with RESTful web services
Desirable
- Working experience with Kafka
- Experience in agile and test-driven development methodologies
- Helpful to have some background in Math/Physics or Orbital mechanics
What the job involves
- LeoLabs is seeking talented individuals to join our Measurements & Tracking team as a Senior Software Engineer
- The Measurements & Tracking team focuses on LeoLabs’ primary data pipeline and is responsible for ingesting measurements from the radars, transforming the data to enrich it and making it available for not only other parts of the system but also customers
- As a part of our team, you will make significant contributions to both the developer experience and the customer experience for the LeoLabs Platform
- You will explore and incorporate new technologies to help scaling the data pipeline to handle more radar sources
- You will be responsible for not only the technical evolution of our platform but also measuring its performance, creating dashboards to keep track of data quality and more
- Within 3 months, you’ll:
- Be involved in the transition of the system to micro services on EKS
- Will be integrated in the Measurements & Tracking team
- Have learned how the team operates
- Within 6 months, you’ll:
- Have contributed to the transition of the system from ECS to EKS
- Own the team’s system testing – an integral part of the data processing pipeline responsible for mapping measurements to tracked objects – enabling the team to do rapid algorithm testing and deployment
- Within 12 months, you’ll:
- Have created an automated system allowing us to deploy faster and safer
- Have helped shape the software engineering culture at Leolabs
- Have helped the software engineering team scale the backend platform
Our take
Low Earth orbit (LEO) is fertile territory for the new space and satellite startups cropping up all over the world. It offers unrivalled access to lightning-fast communications and high-quality earth imaging - the only issue is, things are getting crowded up there. This in itself creates an access and safety issue for further developments and exploration, and collisions run the risk of creating even riskier levels of space debris.
LeoLabs’ LEO mapping and situational awareness services are designed to help organisations monitor and navigate this clutter, and it has cornered the market. Not only is it the leading company operating in this space, but it’s also been awarded a roster of hefty contracts, including from the US Department of Commerce, the European Space Agency and Japan's Air Self-Defence Force.
LEO's sustainability is an issue that’s only going to get more urgent as tech development continues to drive the direction of global communications and observation. So we may see more players push onto the scene. For now, however, LeoLabs’ impressive global leadership in the field and continued partnership with SRI International (from which the labs originally spun out) mean it has time to consolidate and expand its lead. Substantial funding awarded in 2024 will be used to scale up its end-user applications and partner integrations, and on the back of this, it saw $50 million in new contracts that same year.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2025
$4m
GRANT
Feb 2024
$29m
LATE VC
Total funding: $115m
Company benefits
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401(k)
Company HQ
Suburban Park–Lorelei Manor–Flood Park Triangle, Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Daniel Ceperley
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a Student Researcher at at UC Berkeley, then served as Program Director for Space Debris Tracking at SRI International, from which project LeoLabs spun out.
Edward Lu
(Co-Founder & CTO)Spent over a decade as a NASA Astronaut, then moved into a Program Manager role at Google, then Chief of Innovative Applications at Liquid Robotics. Has also spent two decades as the Executive Director of B612 Foundation.
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