# Senior Software Engineer, Ground Station Platform

About the role Muon is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and help scale our core platforms. In this role, you'll design foundational architecture, ship customer-facing features with real, immediate impact, and tackle a wide range of complex technical challenges. You'll work within a tight-knit team that values open communication, cross-functional collaboration, and moving quickly without cutting corners. You'll partner closely with other engineering teams to translate business needs into reliable, well-crafted solutions. Whether you're building something from scratch or improving what already exists, you'll have a direct hand in shaping the systems our customers depend on every day. This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week. Responsibilities Design, build, and evolve high-performance systems that are scalable, resilient, and reliable. Work across the stack, and cross-functionally to deliver end-to-end platform capabilities. Contribute to architectural decisions that shape the long-term direction of our core systems. Identify and resolve bottlenecks, performance issues, and systemic risks in production e

- **Id**: 3856748
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/muon-space-senior-software-engineer-ground-station-platform>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T03:42:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T12:08:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5542
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Retirement plans, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Ground Systems, Satellite Manufacturing, Earth Observation, Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 4799
- **Name**: Muon Space
- **Domain**: muonspace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/muon-space>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.579
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 52
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 213000
- **Max**: 237000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 237000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T06:50:04Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 52
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 237000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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