About the Role
As a Site Reliability Engineer with strong networking skills, you will own the networks that keep Loft running, ensuring they are reliable, observable, and secure as we scale. You will also participate in the broader SRE team's work, including platform reliability, incident response, and planning.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the design and implement Loft’s network architecture; cloud networking, VPN/site-to-site, segmentation, and routing across offices, ground stations, and test equipment
- Tighten the network security posture: segmentation, access, and connectivity hardening
- Manage the network as code: IaC provisioning, CI/CD, and GitOps
- Define SLOs for connectivity and ground-station availability, and own the observability (metrics, logs, tracing)
- Investigate and resolve reliability issues with root-cause analysis and durable fixes; reduce operational toil through automation
- Contribute to the SRE team’s broader reliability and incident-response work, fostering the SatDevOps culture
Requirements
- 4–5 years in network engineering, with deep hands-on networking: routing, VPN/site-to-site, segmentation, DNS, firewalling
- Hands-on Software-Defined Networking: comfortable managing networks programmatically / as code rather than appliance-by-appliance
- Strong public-cloud networking experience, ideally GCP (VPCs, peering, hybrid connectivity)
- Comfortable operating on a Kuburnetes platform (k8s, Docker) and occasionally writing code
- Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) and a CI/CD-driven, GitOps workflow
- An SRE mindset: SLOs, observability, and reducing toil through automation
- Ability to debug connectivity issues in a complex, hybrid network environment
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Skills
- Networking
- Cloud networking
- VPN
- Site-to-site connectivity
- Segmentation
- Routing
- Network security
- Software-Defined Networking
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- GitOps
- SLOs
- Observability
- Automation
- Grafana
Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Golden, CO
- Toulouse, France
Work Type
- Onsite
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 4-5 years
Education Level
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- $157,000 - $239,000
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance option for employees and dependents
- Flexible Spending (FSA) and Health Savings (HSA) Accounts offered with an employer contribution to the HSA
- 100% employer paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability insurance
- Flexible Time Off policy for vacation and sick leave, and 12 paid holidays
- 401(k) plan and equity options
- Daily catered lunches and snacks in office
- International exposure to our team in France
- Fully paid parental leave; 14 weeks for birthing parent and 10 weeks for non-birthing parent
- Carrot Fertility provides comprehensive, inclusive fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits with financial support
- Off-sites and many social events and celebrations
- Relocation assistance when applicable
About the Company
- Loft: Space Made Simple.
- Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.
- We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more.
- Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months.
- With more than 30 missions flown, Loft’s flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.
- With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.
Equal Opportunity
- Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft, we value respectful debate and people who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes.
