United States onlyWhy LeoLabs?
At LeoLabs, we’re building the living map of activity in space. Through our proprietary global radar network and AI-enabled analytics platform, we collect millions of measurements daily on more than 241,000 objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). Our radar-powered intelligence protects billions in assets, monitors adversarial behavior, and ensures safe operations for commercial and government missions.
We’re not just building technology, we are redefining global security, safety, and transparency in space. As orbital activity accelerates and threats grow more complex, LeoLabs is a trusted partner for Space Domain Awareness, Space Traffic Management, and Satellite Operations for top-tier space operators and allied defense organizations.
If you're looking to work on mission-critical challenges at the forefront of aerospace, national security, and AI, your impact starts here.
The Opportunity:
LeoLabs is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our cross-functional Insights team. This is a collaborative high-impact team of 10 engineers and a key part of our broader 30-person software engineering organization.
As a Full-Stack Engineer on the Insights team, you will play a central role in developing customer-facing analytics, integrations with customer systems, and mission-critical APIs and services. Your work will power real-time decisions that help protect and manage satellites and other objects in low-earth orbit.
The Insights team builds and maintains:
- Web-based UIs and applications
- Backend services and business logic
- Integrations between systems and APIs
- Deployments to cloud and on-site environments
- Interfaces with LeoLabs’ data lake
We leverage services built and maintained by other LeoLabs teams, including radar development and operations and catalog maintenance.
While this role will be primarily focused on delivery of back-end services, some experience with front-end development is desirable.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud-based backend services and APIs
- Collaborate with front-end engineers, data teams, and infrastructure to deliver full-feature solutions
- Ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of production systems
- Integrate with internal and customer-facing systems using secure, robust practices
- Deploy services to both cloud and on-site environments
- Participate in the full Agile development lifecycle: planning, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering practices, tooling, and architecture
Qualifications:
- B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in a fast-paced development environment.
- Extensive experience designing, building, testing, deploying and maintaining cloud-based software services and APIs.
- Significant expertise in Python is required, with additional experience in languages such as Go or C++ considered a plus.
- Strong knowledge of software development and testing methodologies, best practices, and industry standards.
- Experience with cloud environments like AWS/GCP/Azure.
- Experience with databases like Postgres/MySQL.
- Experience building message-driven applications with tools such as Kafka and SQS.
- Solid understanding of Agile workflows and principles.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotations for critical issue response.
- Eligibility for US security clearance.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes, including container orchestration, scaling, and monitoring in cloud environments.
- Familiarity with building user interfaces with front-end technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript and HTML.
- Desired experience in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting applications using Kubernetes
- Background in Math/Physics, AI/ML, or Orbital Mechanics.
- Active US security clearance.
Within 1 month, you’ll:
- Complete onboarding and get ramped up on our mission, team, and tech stack. Set up your local development environment, tools, and access.
- Attend sprint ceremonies and shadow code reviews to begin ramping up on Insights codebase and processes.
- Complete first small, low-risk changes or documentation updates under guidance.
Within 3 months, you’ll:
- Understand core architecture and dependencies for Insights products.
- Begin tackling small-to-medium scoped features with coaching and mentoring support
- Work comfortably within the team’s agile processes and contribute to task planning and estimation.
Within 6 months, you’ll:
- Demonstrate solid grasp of team’s architecture, dependencies, and operational practices.
- Actively contribute to software deliverables with some coaching and mentoring, consistently shipping well-tested, reliable code.
- Own and drive deliverables to completion, including design and implementation of scoped work.
Within 12 months, you’ll:
- Demonstrate full proficiency in the team’s tech stack and operational practices.
- Deliver complex features end-to-end with minimal oversight.
- Act as a trusted peer through code reviews and helping shape technical discussions and decisions.
- Proactively identify continuous improvement opportunities across the codebase.
Perks and Benefits
Global workforce: flexible remote/hybrid opportunities
Work on complex, meaningful missions with real-world impact
Unlimited paid time off for most roles
Competitive salary and equity packages
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
Access to the forefront of commercial space operations and defense innovation
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
