Software Engineer

Lanteris Space Systems is hiring a Software Engineer for its Ground Software group, focused on building, deploying, and maintaining telemetry and commanding products for spacecraft. This role supports satellite development across the full lifecycle, with opportunities to modernize legacy systems, strengthen automated testing, and improve reliability through better monitoring and on-call support. The position is based in Palo Alto, CA with remote work available.

Compensation: USD 82,000 - 156,000 per year. Salary ranges are disclosed for pay transparency.

Key responsibilities

• Develop frontend and backend software for a spacecraft ground software system within an agile team environment
• Design and modernize software for assembly, integration, and test during satellite manufacture
• Conduct peer reviews and create test cases and procedures to verify software functionality
• Document and maintain architectures, requirements, algorithms, and system interfaces
• Join software requirements evaluation, generation, design, implementation, and testing discussions
• Collaborate with flight software, integration and test (I&T), and mission operations teams to understand user needs
• Identify opportunities to transition legacy-based systems into modern, high-performance, reliable software architectures
• Support team growth by sharing knowledge with fellow software engineers
• Respond to incidents and anomalies through on-call support and improved automated performance monitoring and alerting

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field
• 2 years of professional software development experience, or a Graduate degree in a STEM field
• Programming experience with at least two of: C++, Java, Python
• Familiarity with DevOps concepts such as infrastructure as code, CI/CD tools, and containerization
• Experience building services on AWS

Technologies you may work with

• C++, Java, Python, AWS
• Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containerization
• MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB
• JUnit, PyTest, Boost
• Tcl/Tk, React

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Health and welfare insurance
• 401(k) to eligible employees

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with a large, shared codebase and continuous integration and deployment workflows and tooling
• Development experience with command and telemetry processing, mission operations, ground segments, and/or satellite software
• Experience designing and/or developing web-based observability, data visualization, and user interface applications
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases (for example, MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB)
• Experience using automated testing frameworks (JUnit, PyTest, Boost)
• Experience with user-interface design/development (Tcl/Tk, React)
• Experience with service-oriented and micro-service architectures
• Professional written communications
• Highly focused self-starter who likes solving problems
• Passion for learning and teaching new technical skills

Pay transparency (U.S. locations)

• Colorado: $82,000.00 - $136,000.00 annually
• New Jersey: $82,000.00 - $136,000.00 annually
• Delaware: $82,000.00 - $136,000.00 annually
• Washington, DC metropolitan area: $90,000.00 - $150,000.00 annually
• California: $94,000.00 - $156,000.00 annually
• All other states: geographic cost of labor is used to develop market-driven ranges for roles, and ranges may vary by location

Application window: Three days from the date the job is posted, and it will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted, it will remain posted three days from the repost date and continue to be posted until a qualified candidate is identified.