Software Engineer, Ground Software Verified today
About Katalyst
Katalyst builds robotic spacecraft that enable dynamic space operations. We develop foundational capabilities for sustained, responsive space operations including maneuvering, upgrading, refueling, and exploration. You'll work in an intense, hands-on environment where problems are hard and impact is real.
What You'll Do
- Review and understand current ground stack
- Understand and walk through current mission workflows
- Identify gaps and potential technical debt
- Train on console for upcoming mission operations
What You'll Own in 30 Days
- Choose an area to become a code owner in
- Help create automated tooling to improve ground procedures
- Help enforce and improve culture around code quality and standards
- Mentor junior engineers
- Be an advocate and example of testing and integrating work into other areas
- Help give technical expertise to fill out user stories and epics
What We Value
- System level thinking around cloud-based scalable microservice systems
- Strong desire to build and design something from the ground up
- Ability to understand and communicate customer needs into actionable items
- Someone who strives for clarity but can make do without perfect requirements
- Operations-first developer mindset
- Strong executor producing valuable and reliable code
- Passion for automation and creating systems that streamline operations
- Reliability-first mindset
Your Background
Required:
- 3-8 years of cloud-based scalable microservice architecture experience
- Experience owning services in production
- Experience supporting mission-critical services
- Experience creating high reliability production-critical systems
- Familiarity working with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure proper feature creation
- Deep technical fluency in cloud, backend, frontend, and streaming systems
- AWS Suite (EKS, MSK, Timestream, S3, Batch, Event Bridge), Python, C++, React, Tailwind, Redis, Kafka, influx, QuestDB, MongoDB, git, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes