Senior Application Software Engineer

K2 Space•Los Angeles, CA

4h•$160,000 - $200,000

About The Position

K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown, unlocking performance levels previously out of reach across every orbit. Backed by $450M from leading investors including Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Alpine Space Ventures, and others – with an additional $500M in signed contracts across commercial and US government customers – we’re mass-producing the highest-power satellite platforms ever built for missions from LEO to deep space. The rise of heavy-lift launch vehicles is shifting the industry from an era of mass constraint to one of mass abundance, and we believe this new era demands a fundamentally different class of spacecraft. Engineered to survive the harshest radiation environments and to fully capitalize on today’s and tomorrow’s massive rockets, K2 satellites deliver unmatched capability at constellation scale and across multiple orbits. With multiple launches planned through 2026 and 2027, we're Building Bigger to develop the solar system and become a Kardashev Type II (K2) civilization. If you are a motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and you're excited about contributing to the success of a groundbreaking Series C space startup, we’d love for you to apply. As a Senior Application Software Engineer on our Enterprise Team, you will design and build mission-critical software that connects engineering, manufacturing, and operations. Your work will directly enable accelerated satellite design, rapid production, and reliable mission execution. You’ll collaborate closely with teams throughout K2 Space and deliver systems that improve efficiency, scale operations, and support ambitious missions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics or a STEM discipline or 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
5+ years of experience in full stack development, platform engineering or API development.
3+ years of experience with AWS.
3+ years of in-depth working experience with CI/CD such as GH Actions, Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD.
Working experience with Docker.
In-depth working experience with Kubernetes (prefer AWS EKS).
Expert working experience with one or more of the following static typed programming languages such as C#, Go, Java, C++, TypeScript.
3+ years of experience with structured database such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake or similar technologies
Working experience with unstructured database such as NoSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB or similar.
Strong working experience with REST API or gRPC.
Strong working experience with binary management platforms such as JFrog Artifactory, AWS CodeArtifact or similar technologies.
Experience with infrastructure orchestration and management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).

Nice To Haves

Experience with Next.js, React, Angular, or similar frameworks.
Working experience with testing tool such as Cucumber and Cypress.
Experience designing scalable, high-performance software systems.
Knowledge of build systems and package management tools (e.g., Make, Gradle, npm, pip).
Familiarity with data streaming technologies like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.

Responsibilities

Develop highly reliable software solutions used across K2 Space — from factory floors to mission control.
Create and evolve applications that improve how we design, build, and operate our spacecraft.
Partner closely with engineers, business partners and leaders across disciplines to understand their challenges and design efficient solutions.
Build prototypes to test concepts, validate technical constraints and progress to production features.
Own full-lifecycle feature development from inception to happy customers.
Actively contribute to software architecture design, deployment strategy, coding standards and quality processes.
Understand tradeoffs in competing engineering options and be able to articulate these tradeoffs to senior leadership to help drive decisions.
Work with customers to drive adoption and make progress on product usability.
Use data to drive prioritization of work and design of solutions to create the largest positive impact.
Actively contribute to building a culture of transparency, empathy, integrity and engineering excellence.
Actively mentoring other staff members and help team members build good culture and engineering practices.

Benefits

Base salary range for this role is $160,000 - $200,000 + equity in the company
Salary will be based on several factors including, but not limited to: knowledge and skills, education, and experience level
Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision/ coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks

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