K2 Space
Senior Application Software Engineer
$160K–$200K
Los Angeles, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 25, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles - Experience
- 5+ years in full stack development, platform engineering, or API development; 3+ years with AWS, CI/CD, and structured databases; alternatively, 8+ years of professional software engineering experience may satisfy the education requirement.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics, or a STEM discipline, or 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15, or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.
About the job
Designs and builds mission-critical enterprise software connecting engineering, manufacturing, and operations to accelerate spacecraft design, production, and mission execution.
What you'll do
- Develop reliable applications used across factory and mission-control operations, from prototypes through production features.
- Own full-lifecycle feature development and contribute to software architecture, deployment strategy, coding standards, and quality processes.
- Partner with cross-functional teams and customers to improve usability, adoption, and operational efficiency; mentor team members.
What they ask for
- 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 with AWS and CI/CD.
- Working experience with Docker and in-depth working experience with Kubernetes; expert working experience with one or more listed statically typed languages.
- 3+ years with structured databases; experience with unstructured databases, REST API or gRPC, binary management platforms, and infrastructure orchestration tools.
Nice to have
- Experience with Next.js, React, Angular, or similar frameworks; testing tools such as Cucumber and Cypress.
- Experience designing scalable, high-performance software systems; familiarity with build/package tools or data streaming technologies.
Pay
$160,000 - $200,000 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, GH Actions, Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, C#, Go, Java, C++, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, REST API, gRPC, JFrog Artifactory, AWS CodeArtifact, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet
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