What's the salary range?

K2 Space lists $123,000–$160,000 for this role.

How much experience is required?

At least 2 years of relevant experience for this Platform Engineer (DevX) role.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS CDK, Amazon EKS, C++, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Go.

What seniority level is this role?

K2 Space targets mid-level candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Platform Engineer (DevX) role at K2 Space.

Platform Engineer (DevX) at K2 Space

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.

The Role

The Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) team builds the digital backbone behind K2's satellite design, manufacturing, and mission operations, connecting engineering, production, and mission control so our hardware moves from concept to orbit faster. We're looking for a Platform Engineer who believes developer experience is a first-class engineering discipline. You'll build the deployment patterns, guardrails, and tooling that let engineers from many backgrounds, including those building with AI assistance, ship secure, reliable applications with minimal friction.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain golden-path deployment patterns for Amazon EKS, with built-in guardrails that get applications to production faster.
Help drive secure, consistent AI adoption across software development, including guardrails, governance, observability, and operational support for AI-assisted workflows.
Build automated policies and CI/CD gates that enforce code quality, test coverage, and safe deployments.
Integrate end-to-end monitoring, alerting, and SLOs into the platform.
Track performance and cost (latency budgets, cross-AZ transfer, IP consumption, load balancer efficiency) and act on anomalies.
Write approachable docs and diagnostics, such as guides, diagrams, and "why can't this connect?" flows, that shorten support loops.
Run proofs of concept on new AI platforms, models, and developer experience tools.
Learn the manufacturing domain and make complex concerns like service identity and secure communication simple for platform users.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience, plus 2+ years building developer tooling, platforms, or deployment patterns.
Proficiency in at least one of Go, TypeScript, Python, or C#.
Hands-on experience deploying applications on Amazon EKS.
Experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions or GitLab CI) and disciplined Git workflows (branching, reviews, automated gates).
Practical experience with AI-assisted development and a clear view of its benefits and pitfalls.

Nice to Have

Infrastructure as code with Terraform or AWS CDK.
Progressive delivery, such as canary rollouts, and policy-as-code.
Observability experience with metrics, tracing, structured logs, L4/L7 telemetry, and SLI/SLO definition.
Experience building internal developer platforms or golden-path tooling.
Experience supporting manufacturing, aerospace, or other hardware-driven organizations.

Compensation and Benefits:

Base salary range for this role is $123,000 $160,000 + equity in the company
Salary will be based on several factors including, but not limited to: knowledge and skills, education, and experience level
Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision/ coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks

If you don’t meet 100% of the preferred skills and experience, we encourage you to still apply! Building a spacecraft unlike any other requires a team unlike any other and non-traditional career twists and turns are encouraged!

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