Senior Software Engineer, Muon Space
Software Platform
$184-208k
Plus competitive equity grant
3 days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
End-to-end space systems provider
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End-to-end space systems provider
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$184-208k
Plus competitive equity grant
3 days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make Earth Intelligence accessible to help protect our planet's people, climate and ecosystem.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent industry experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in Python, C++, or Rust, in production environments
- Experience in distributed systems, backend services, or platform development with hands-on depth in Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS
- Demonstrated experience building and operating mission-critical services with uptime, reliability, and performance requirements
- Knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure (e.g., containers, service orchestration, observability stacks)
- Strong debugging, profiling, and code optimization skills
- Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading medium to large technical initiatives
Desirable
- Comfort working in a highly interdisciplinary environment with engineers, operators, and domain specialists
- Familiarity with real-time data processing pipelines or high-throughput systems
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, or automated deployment workflows
- Contributions to open-source projects or a track record of technical writing and knowledge sharing
What the job involves
- Muon is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Software Platform team
- This team builds and operates the paved roads (CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bazel, AWS, IAM, data infrastructure, and more) that underpin both our internal tooling and the production systems behind customer-facing products such as Muon Mission Command
- The Software Platform team is critical to the overall growth and success of Muon's software engineering organization: as the number of product teams, services, and customers expands, the leverage this team creates, through reduced cognitive load, eliminated toil, and self-service Golden Paths, directly determines how fast the rest of engineering can move
- Design, build, and evolve high-performance systems that are scalable, resilient, and reliable
- Work across the stack, and cross-functionally to deliver end-to-end platform capabilities
- Contribute to architectural decisions that shape the long-term direction of our core systems
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks, performance issues, and systemic risks in production environments
- Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business and product needs into well-crafted technical solutions
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and knowledge sharing across teams
- Take ownership of features from concept through deployment and ongoing operation
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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