Senior Security Engineer

Loft Orbital is revolutionizing access to space by building reliable, shareable satellites that drastically reduce the time and complexity traditionally required to get to orbit. We operate satellites, fly customer payloads, and handle entire missions from end-to-end. We're a close-knit team of space enthusiasts, software experts, and cutting-edge technologists, all working together to make space simple for our customers.

As a Senior Security Engineer on our Security and Compliance Team, your mission will be to ensure that our highly automated, containerized, and globally distributed infrastructure remains secure throughout its lifecycle, from architecture to incident response. You'll be at the heart of our DevSecOps efforts, collaborating directly with infrastructure, software, product, and solution teams to scale Loft's security maturity while embracing our startup agility and culture.

This is a hands-on, deeply collaborative role, offering broad scope, rapid growth opportunities, and yes, a chance to contribute to space missions

About the Role :

• Champion DevSecOps best practices by designing and implementing security controls directly into our CI / CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI).
• Lead and automate application and infrastructure security assessments , including threat modeling and code review.
• Partner with developers and SREs to identify, remediate, and prevent vulnerabilities through secure design and practical guidance.
• Design, build, and maintain secure architecture patterns for containerized, cloud-native, and distributed workloads.
• Develop and maintain automated security tooling , such as container image scanning, IaC validation, and policy-as-code.
• Collaborate on automated security tooling for container image scanning, IaC validation, and RBAC compliance.
• Support incident response workflows, including detection, forensics, root cause analysis, and post-mortems.
• Provide technical mentorship and real-time enablement to help teams adopt a "secure-by-default" mindset.
• Contribute to internal security tools and automation using Python, Go, or other modern languages.
• Continuously improve how we measure and scale security across our SRE and infrastructure platforms .

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Some of Our Awesome Benefits :

$140,250 - $190,000 a year

State law requires us to tell you the base compensation range for this role, which is $140,250- $190,000 per year. This is determined by your education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities. The salary range for this role is intentionally wide as we evaluate individuals based on their unique experience and abilities to fit our needs. Most importantly, we are excited to meet you, and see if you are a great fit for our team. What we can't quantify for you are the exciting challenges, supportive team, and amazing culture we enjoy.

Who We Are

Loft : Space Made Simple.

Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and flexible 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, in-orbit demonstrations, 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 25 missions flown, Loft's flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.

At Loft, you'll be given the autonomy and ownership to solve significant challenges, but with a close-knit and supportive team at your back. We believe that diversity and community are the foundation of an open culture. We are committed to hiring the best people regardless of background and make their time at Loft the most fulfilling period of their career.

We value kind, supportive and team-oriented collaborators. It is also crucial for us that you are a problem solver and a great communicator. As our team is international, you will need strong English skills to better collaborate, easily communicate complex ideas and convey important messages.

With 4 satellites on-orbit and a wave of exciting missions launching soon, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France.

As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.