Senior Software Engineer, Ground Software
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Job Description
At Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. We are building artificial gravity space stations, allowing long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven-1, scheduled to be the worldâs first commercial space station when it launches into low-Earth orbit in 2026. It is part of our stepping stone approach to continuous human presence in LEO. Our team is all-in, committed to executing our mission safely and on time. If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us.
Vast is looking for Senior Software Engineer, Ground Software, reporting to Senior Manager, Ground Software, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.
This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
As a software engineer on our growing team, you'll have an opportunity to learn and grow under the mentorship of seasoned engineers from aerospace and big tech, building powerful software that helps expand humanity into space.
Responsibilities:
- Work with team to design and implement web applications using modern frontends and application servers, that consume apis and micro-services in a heterogeneous environment.
- Work with team to design and implement backends including data modeling, apis, and supporting pipelines.
- Rapidly iterate on tooling and design new applications as the company grows.
- Influence and adopt software practices and patterns that will scale to what will eventually become a very large codebase and team.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, or other engineering discipline.
- 6+ years of software development or relevant industry experience.
- Experience building, shipping, and supporting complex, data-intensive full-stack software applications.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Experience working on ambiguous problems.
- Production DevOps experience (Docker and K8s preferred).
- Experience working with multiple programming languages.
- Experience working with time series data and databases.
- Experience with CAD software and the hardware engineering processes.
- Experience with API design.
- Experience with one or more of the following platforms and frameworks.
- React, Vue or similar
- NextJS
- GraphQL
- Nodejs
- OAuth
- Terraform
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a âU.S. personâ as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Job Details
- Department
- Software
- Category
- Software
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Long Beach, California, United States
- Last updated
- Dec 30, 2025, 08:01 PM
- Compensation
- $155,000 - $190,000 per year
About Vast
Part of the growing space industry ecosystem pushing humanity toward interplanetary exploration.
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