Onboard Software Engineer - Deployment & Runtime Environments
Loft Orbital Solutions · On-site
MeritLog read this listing from Loft Orbital Solutions's Lever job board and last checked it on September 11, 2026.
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Job details
- Work model
- On-site
- Salary
- $144,000 - $198,000
- Location
- San Francisco, CA; Golden, CO
Hiring context
How this role compares at Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions has 56 live roles in MeritLog’s catalog across 7 job families, and 36 of them are in engineering. 31 of those listings publish a pay range, a disclosure rate of 55%.
This role's posted range of $144,000 - $198,000 sits above 61% of the 28 other Loft Orbital Solutions roles quoted over the same currency and period.
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Job description
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.