Senior Ground Systems Software Engineer

Develop and maintain critical ground segment software for spacecraft operations.

• •Varda is accelerating the development of commercial space infrastructure.
• •The Mission Software team is responsible for Varda's critical ground segment software, enabling spacecraft operations at the intersection of telemetry, commanding, data acquisition, and mission control interfaces.
• •Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain high-reliability services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding.
• •Deliver operator-grade UIs and dashboards for mission control.
• •Build tools for flight-software simulations, device emulators, and scenario-based automated tests.
• •Design, implement, and productionize software for mission and ground software teams, standardizing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
• •Create robust deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks.
• •Requirements Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, physics, engineering or equivalent technical experience. 5+ years of experience in the development of spacecraft or similar safety critical software.
• •Expertise with development in Python.
• •Strong systems fundamentals: concurrency, networking, performance, reliability.