About the role
The Role
We are looking for a high-agency Software Engineer to help build the core systems behind ConstellationOS — the autonomous operating system for satellite networks. You will work directly with the founders to design, implement, and scale distributed systems that process real-time telemetry, predict network failures, and autonomously reroute mission-critical traffic.
This is not a narrow feature role. You will operate across backend infrastructure, performance-critical systems code, cloud architecture, and operator-facing tooling. You will also engage directly with customers in forward-deployed environments.
This role is based in Seattle, WA.
What You'll Do:
Distributed Systems Architecture: Design and implement fault-tolerant backend systems capable of ingesting and processing high-throughput real-time telemetry streams.
Performance-Critical Engineering: Build and optimize low-latency components in C++ and Rust. Own performance profiling, concurrency design, and system-level optimization.
Cloud & Infrastructure: Develop and operate cloud-native infrastructure (AWS or equivalent), ensuring scalability, observability, and reliability.
Full-Stack Contribution: Contribute to operator-facing frontend systems when needed to ensure seamless integration between backend intelligence and mission control interfaces.
Forward-Deployed Engineering: Work directly with customers in live operational environments. Integrate, debug, and iterate rapidly based on real mission feedback.
Systems Optimization: Continuously improve throughput, reliability, and autonomous decision-making performance across the ConstellationOS platform.
Who You Are:
High Agency: You do not wait for tickets. You identify bottlenecks, propose architectures, and execute.
Systems-Minded: You deeply understand distributed systems, networking, operating systems, and concurrency.
Low-Level Fluent: You are comfortable writing and debugging performance-sensitive systems in C++ and/or Rust.
Cloud Native: You have experience deploying and operating distributed systems in modern cloud environments.
Customer-Ready: You are comfortable interfacing directly with technical customers and operating in forward-deployed settings.
Startup-Calibrated: You thrive in high-velocity environments where ambiguity is normal and impact is immediate.
Bonus: Experience in AI systems, satellite networking, real-time telemetry, or hard-tech environments.
Compensation
- Base salary: $120,000 – $180,000 USD
- Meaningful equity participation
- Competitive benefits
Compensation is commensurate with experience, technical depth, and demonstrated systems expertise.
About Constellation Space
Constellation Space is building the autonomous infrastructure layer for the next generation of space networking. As satellite constellations rapidly scale from hundreds of nodes to tens of thousands, traditional ground-based orchestration fundamentally breaks down. ConstellationOS bridges this gap by providing zero-intervention network handoffs, predictive thermal load-balancing, and sub-second optical routing.
Our founding team spent years building and operating satellite systems at SpaceX, Blue Origin, and NASA. We started Constellation to solve the problem we kept running into: reactive monitoring doesn't scale.
We are building the sub-second routing protocols and hyperscale load-balancing infrastructure that will manage the future of off-world telecommunications and compute.
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Job details
Salary
$120,000 - $180,000
Equity
0.25% - 1%
Location
Seattle, WA
Experience
3+ years
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.