Early-Career Software Engineer (Platform)

Quick Facts

• Role: Early-career Software Engineer on the Platform team

Description

Platform Engineering builds and maintains the software that takes products from prototype to full operation, including CI/CD, testing and release, monitoring, and keeping remote hardware healthy. As an early-career engineer, you’ll ship to real production systems quickly with close mentorship and grow ownership as you demonstrate readiness. Focus areas include delivery and release, simulation and test, ground station operations, observability, internal platform tools, and infrastructure and security.

Responsibilities

• Build CI and release pipelines to take code from commit to production in cloud and at remote ground stations

• Enable safe, continuous delivery with staged rollouts and fast rollback

• Create simulated ground stations and lab test benches to validate releases against realistic conditions

• Build tools to replay recorded data for earlier issue detection

• Automate remote site bring-up, configuration, and updates

• Write software that runs on servers at the antenna locations and keep the global fleet healthy

• Develop monitoring, logging, and alerting for service and site health

• Convert telemetry into actionable signals for engineers and operators

• Build backend services and web interfaces used to ship and run platform software

• Implement infrastructure as code and platform security features (identity, secrets management, least-privilege access)

Requirements

• 0 to 2 years of professional software experience (internships, research, open source, and projects count)

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or an equivalent alternative path

• Experience writing real software beyond coursework in at least one general-purpose language (Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or C++)

• Evidence of having built and shipped software used by others

• Evidence of solving a hard technical problem largely on your own

Benefits

• Ship to real production systems from your first weeks

• Close mentorship and increasing ownership as you demonstrate readiness