Senior Application Data Engineer

K2 Space is building large, high-powered spacecraft for the next generation of space development. Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Altimeter Capital, and many others ($200M raised to date), we intend to mass produce the highest-powered satellite platforms ever built for missions across LEO to Deep Space.

The rise of launch vehicles like Falcon 9 and Starship enables the move from an era of mass constraint to one of mass abundance. We believe this new era requires spacecraft with a fundamentally different design in order to fully utilize the massive rockets coming to market.

We’re a team that believes the future lies in building large, high-powered satellites that can handle multiple orbits. This is a necessity if we ever want to develop the solar system, and become a Kardashev Type II (K2) civilization.

If you are a motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and you're excited about contributing to the success of a groundbreaking Series B space startup, we’d love for you to apply.

Our enterprise software team builds the digital backbone that powers K2 Space’s satellite design, manufacturing, and mission operations. We develop tools that connect engineering, production, and mission control into a seamless ecosystem — enabling our hardware to get from concept to orbit faster than ever before.

We’re looking for engineers who are curious, collaborative, and driven to deliver mission-critical software that helps turn ambitious space projects into reality.

• Develop highly reliable data solutions used across K2 Space — from factory floors to mission control.
• Create and evolve data design that improve how we design, build, and operate our spacecraft.
• Partner closely with engineers, business partners, and leaders across disciplines to understand their challenges and design efficient solutions.
• Own data solutions from concept to full fledge product.
• Lead data architecture designs, drive data optimization, ensure data integrity and accuracy.
• Evaluate and make decisions regarding competing data design tradeoffs.
• Advocate, defend and convert other engineering leaders to your own solutions.
• Use data to drive prioritization of work and design of solutions to create the largest positive impact.
• Actively contribute to building a culture of transparency, empathy, integrity, and engineering excellence.
• Actively mentoring other staff members and help team members build good culture and engineering practices.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics or a STEM discipline or 12+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 8+ years of in-depth experience with structured databases such as MS SQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, Snowflake.
• 5+ years of in-depth experience with hosted database solutions such as AWS RDS, AWS Postgre
  
  SQL.
• 3+ years of working experience with CI/CD deployment.
• Working experience with Docker.
• Working experience with Kubernetes (prefer AWS EKS).
• 3+ years of experience with unstructured database such as No
  
  SQL, Amazon Dynamo
  
  DB, Mongo
  
  DB or similar.
• Working experience with REST API.
• Strong working experience with data migration process, including data normalization, schema mapping, data serialization, data pipeline, ETL, real-time or near real-time data replication, data mirroring.

• Experience with distributed data designs such as caching, sharding, data validation.
• Experience with public cloud data warehouse solution.
• Experience with data designs for physical product manufacturing.
• Strong working experience with data analytic such as AWS Redshift.

• Base salary range for this role is $160,000 – $200,000 + equity in the company
• Salary will be based on several factors including, but not limited to: knowledge and skills, education, and experience level
• Comprehensive benefits package including unlimited paid time off, medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks

If you don’t meet 100% of the preferred skills and experience, we encourage you to still apply! Building a spacecraft unlike any other requires a team unlike any other and non-traditional career twists…