New comment by 4thelol in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)"

Loft Orbital | Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (SRE) | Golden, CO or San Francisco, CA | $180k–$240k + equity | https://loftorbital.com

Loft builds and operates shareable satellites so customers can fly a payload without building a spacecraft. We integrate, launch, and operate the mission end to end: Earth observation, IoT, on-orbit AI, national security. 30+ missions flown since 2017, fleet on track for 30 satellites by 2027, offices in SF, Golden, and Toulouse.

Our Cloud Infrastructure team runs the ground segment that talks to the fleet. This is an SRE role with a twist: we apply DevOps practices to spacecraft control (we call it SatDevOps), and we'll train you to operate the satellites.

What you'd own: - Hybrid cloud infra on GCP + Kubernetes: provisioning (IaC), CI/CD, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux) - The observability stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, tracing) across ground and flight systems - Reliability: RCAs, fault tolerance, performance tuning, long-term fixes over patches - Software-defined networking between ground stations, cloud, and mission ops - Developer experience: tooling and environments for the flight software and ops teams

Looking for: strong public cloud (ideally GCP), deep Kubernetes, one backend language (Go/Python/Rust/C++/Java), IaC + CI/CD in anger, and someone who can design HA systems and then run them. Nice to have: FinOps, security tooling, orchestration in resource-constrained environments.

Benefits: 100% company-paid medical/dental/vision for you and dependents, 401(k) + equity, flexible PTO + 12 holidays, 14/10 weeks paid parental leave, daily catered lunch, relocation assistance, and time with the team in France.

Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/loftorbital/3ae5c3e3-c1e0-4311-83b5-0b... and mention HN in your application.