Onboard Software Engineer - Deployment & Runtime Environments at Loft Orbital Solutions
Golden, CO
$144,000–$198,000
Jul 21, 2026
Golden, CO
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role focused on the systems that package, deploy, and run software aboard operational satellites. Day-to-day work spans a bundle management tool for assembling mission-specific software stacks, onboard Linux infrastructure (service management, filesystem, failure recovery), and a container runtime environment that hosts partner and customer workloads in orbit. The role suits engineers comfortable moving between Linux internals, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.
Senior level · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
Pay in the description: $144,000–$198,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,200 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 910–1,600
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting lists multiple office locations (San Francisco, CA; Golden, CO; Toulouse, France). San Francisco is listed first and appears to be the primary US hub; the role is mapped to that metro. Candidates in Golden, CO or Toulouse may also be considered.
No explicit seniority level appears in the title or framing. The scope — owning a full subsystem end-to-end, driving features from concept through delivery, and operating in a safety-critical embedded/space environment — supports a Senior classification despite no stated years requirement.
The 'Must Haves' section lists containerization technologies with Docker and Kubernetes as named examples ('or similar runtimes'); Docker is used as the primary skill name with Kubernetes in alternatives, reflecting that either satisfies the gate.
CI/CD is listed as a hard gate; GitLab CI and Jenkins are the named examples ('or similar'), so GitLab CI is the primary skill with Jenkins as an alternative.
Embedded or resource-constrained systems experience is listed as a Must Have but names no specific technology, so it is not emitted as a skill per the generic-concept rule.
The 'Nice to Haves' section covers OTA/deployment strategy concepts (golden images, A/B partitions, staged rollouts) — these are methodological concepts rather than named tools and are omitted.
Embedded Linux experience (Yocto, device trees, systemd, Linux on ARM) appears under Nice to Haves; Yocto and systemd are the concrete named tools extracted; 'device trees' and 'Linux on ARM' are platform/concept descriptors rather than discrete tools.
Go and Rust are listed together as additional languages under Nice to Haves; Go is the primary skill with Rust as an alternative since the posting treats them interchangeably as desirable extras.
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