Senior Platform Engineer (DevX)

About the company

K2 Space is a manufacturer of large, high-power satellites.

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p data-renderer-start-pos="41">K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown, unlocking performance levels previously out of reach across every orbit. Backed by over $1 billion in total funding from leading investors including Altimeter Capital, ICONIQ, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and T. Rowe Price — and with over $1 billion in signed contracts across commercial and US government customers, we're mass-producing the highest-power satellite platforms ever built for missions from LEO to deep space.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="570">The rise of heavy-lift launch vehicles is shifting the industry from an era of mass constraint to one of mass abundance, and we believe this new era demands a fundamentally different class of spacecraft. Engineered to survive the harshest radiation environments and to fully capitalize on today's and tomorrow's massive rockets, K2 satellites deliver unmatched capability at constellation scale and across multiple orbits.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="994">With multiple launches in 2027 and plans to scale to 100 satellites a year, we're Building Bigger — helping develop the solar system and build toward 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 high-growth Series D-funded company, we'd love for you to apply.</p></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="none">The Role</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Our enterprise software team builds the digital backbone that powers K2 Space’s&nbsp;($1B&nbsp;raised to date)&nbsp;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.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">As we continue to grow,&nbsp;we’re&nbsp;looking for&nbsp;</span><span data-contrast="auto">a Senior&nbsp;Platform&nbsp;Engineer on our&nbsp;Enterprise Information Systems&nbsp;team, you must&nbsp;possess&nbsp;strong technical skills and a sense of empathy for your fellow&nbsp;engineers. You will work closely with other talented engineers, architects and senior stakeholders to design, implement, and deliver on our roadmap.</span>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Our Ideal Candidate</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Distills&nbsp;application development&nbsp;best practices into repeatable low friction patterns to enable users from multiple backgrounds&nbsp;to build&nbsp;high-quality&nbsp;applications and services</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Practices surgical precision in feature development, delivering high value while avoiding complexity that delays or bloats</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Delivers work with excellence including readable code, automated tests, clear documentation, consistent maintenance, and polished observability</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Intuitively understands&nbsp;manufacturing&nbsp;domain functionality, service identity, and secure communication with a keen ability to simplify them</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Understands the importance of resilience and reliability in production operations and upgrades</span>&nbsp;<br><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}">&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Responsibilities&nbsp;</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Build&nbsp;consistent&nbsp;application&nbsp;patterns&nbsp;to&nbsp;deploy to&nbsp;Amazon EKS&nbsp;enabling&nbsp;both&nbsp;AI-assisted&nbsp;general application&nbsp;development and specialized application development work&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Promoting AI adoption in a secure and consistent model&nbsp;while supporting AI operational needs.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Establishing AI guardrails,&nbsp;observability&nbsp;and governance&nbsp;within the context of software development ensuring AI&nbsp;assisted&nbsp;application development&nbsp;will be secured with industry best practices</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Build guard rails and&nbsp;out-of-the-box&nbsp;platform functionalities&nbsp;for golden path&nbsp;deployment&nbsp;model&nbsp;and accelerate applications&nbsp;go-live with low friction&nbsp;tooling</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Lead long term&nbsp;developer experience&nbsp;road map&nbsp;incorporating&nbsp;capabilities from&nbsp;multiple disciplines within software industry</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Engineer resilient traffic paths (timeouts, retries, circuit breaking, failure isolation) and harden them via chaos tests, automated remediation, and MTTR reduction</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Incorporate&nbsp;observability&nbsp;services&nbsp;for&nbsp;end‑to‑end&nbsp;application monitoring and alerting</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559685":384,"335559739":0}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Provide approachable docs &amp;