# Onboard Software Engineer - Deployment & Runtime Environments

Wanna join the adventure? Loft’s Onboard Software group provides the on-orbit software that powers our satellite fleet - from the Linux services running on the hub processor, to the containerized workloads executing customer applications in low Earth orbit. The Deployment & Runtime Environments team is where software meets the satellite. We own how software gets packaged, deployed, and executed onboard: from the tool that assembles and maintains mission-specific software stacks, to the Runtime Container Environment that lets partner and customer workloads run securely in orbit, to the Linux infrastructure that makes it all reliable. As more satellite programs come online and as we open our container runtime to a growing number of external workloads, the team’s scope is expanding fast. We’re looking for someone scrappy - the kind of engineer who digs into an unfamiliar system, maps it out, and gets it shipped without needing the path handed to them. You’ll move between Linux internals, container runtimes, and CI pipelines, sometimes in the same afternoon. About this role: Contribute to and evolve our bundle management tool - the tool that resolves package dependencies, assembles mis

- **Id**: 1096007
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/loft-orbital-solutions-onboard-software-engineer-deployment-runtime-environments-3>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-22T13:44:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T08:01:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 111
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4089
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible time off, Parental leave, Relocation assistance, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Satellite Manufacturing, Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 4539
- **Name**: Loft Orbital
- **Domain**: loftorbital.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/loft-orbital-solutions>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.375
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 85
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 144000
- **Max**: 198000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 198000

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **CUE** — Optional: yes
- **gRPC** — Optional: yes
- **NATS** — Optional: yes
- **Pytest** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 111

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T18:08:28Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 28
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.63
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 111
- **Expected fill days**: 85
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 198000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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