Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Loft Orbital Solutions
Toulouse
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Jul 12, 2026
Toulouse
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure engineering role focused on designing, maintaining, and scaling a hybrid cloud ground segment for a satellite operations company. Day-to-day work spans Kubernetes management, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code automation, observability stack ownership, and software-defined networking — with the added dimension of applying DevOps practices directly to spacecraft control. Best suited to engineers with deep GCP and Kubernetes experience who are comfortable working across development, operations, and IT teams.
Senior level · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 570 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 210–750
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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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).
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 role is listed across three offices — San Francisco CA, Golden CO, and Toulouse France — with relocation assistance to Toulouse mentioned. The primary US CBSA is listed as San Francisco; Golden CO (Denver-Aurora-Lakewood CBSA) is a genuine alternative US location. The role does not appear to be remote.
GCP is the named cloud platform but the JD says 'ideally GCP', implying other major clouds are acceptable substitutes — alternatives populated accordingly.
Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) is required under Must Haves but no specific tool is named; Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible are listed as the most common substitutes in this context.
The backend language requirement is explicitly one-of: Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, or Java — emitted as a single skill with alternatives.
ArgoCD and FluxCD appear under the Nice to Haves section as GitOps frameworks.
FinOps appears under Nice to Haves as an interest/experience area.
Security practices, vulnerability scanning, and systems engineering tools also appear under Nice to Haves but name no specific tool or product, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and ships infrastructure tooling, CI/CD systems, and automation code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a strong operational/reliability mandate (maintaining observability stacks, SDN operations) that could support 15-1244. The code-building emphasis ('building better tools', backend language proficiency required, IaC authorship) tips the classification to 15-1252.
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