Joblaze summary

In the role of Senior Platform Engineer at K2 Space, the individual will focus on developing and refining the digital tools that streamline satellite design and operations, ensuring efficient collaboration across engineering and production teams. Key skills include proficiency in languages like Go or Python, experience with Amazon EKS, and a strong grasp of CI/CD practices. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with over eight years of experience in developer tooling, particularly those who thrive in fast-paced, innovative environments. K2 Space is rapidly scaling its operations, aiming to revolutionize satellite technology.

Joblaze insights

Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 9, 2026. Last confirmed on K2 Space's careers page October 27, 2026.
Salary band is in line with the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
Starts above 34% of 82 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States that list Python we track (median $165,000 across 37 companies). See Python salary trends
Python appears in 63.5% of 181 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States; C# appears in 2.8% of 181 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States.

Quick facts

What's the salary range?: K2 Space lists $165,000–$200,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Senior Platform Engineer (DevX) role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI, Amazon EKS, C#, CI/CD, GitOps, Go.
What seniority level is this role?: K2 Space targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Senior Platform Engineer (DevX) role at K2 Space.

From the original posting

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

Our enterprise software team builds the digital backbone that powers K2 Space’s ($1B raised to date) 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.

As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer on our Enterprise Information Systems team, you must possess strong technical skills and a sense of empathy for your fellow engineers. You will work closely with other talented engineers, architects and senior stakeholders to design, implement, and deliver on our roadmap.

Our Ideal Candidate

Distills application development best practices into repeatable low friction patterns to enable users from multiple backgrounds to build high-quality applications and services
Practices surgical precision in feature development, delivering high value while avoiding complexity that delays or bloats
Delivers work with excellence including readable code, automated tests, clear documentation, consistent maintenance, and polished observability
Intuitively understands manufacturing domain functionality, service identity, and secure communication with a keen ability to simplify them
Understands the importance of resilience and reliability in production operations and upgrades

Responsibilities

Build consistent application patterns to deploy to Amazon EKS enabling both AI-assisted general application development and specialized application development work
Promoting AI adoption in a secure and consistent model while supporting AI operational needs.
Establishing AI guardrails, observability and governance within the context of software development ensuring AI assisted application development will be secured with industry best practices
Build guard rails and out-of-the-box platform functionalities for golden path deployment model and accelerate applications go-live with low friction tooling
Lead long term developer experience road map incorporating capabilities from multiple disciplines within software industry
Engineer resilient traffic paths (timeouts, retries, circuit breaking, failure isolation) and harden them via chaos tests, automated remediation, and MTTR reduction
Incorporate observability services for end‑to‑end application monitoring and alerting
Provide approachable docs & diagnostics (guides, diagrams, ‘why can’t this connect?’ flows) to shorten support loops
Optimize performance & cost (latency budgets, cross‑AZ transfer, IP consumption, LB efficiency) and act on anomalies
Steward code lifecycle and adoption including versioning, safe migrations, deprecations, usage telemetry, and proactive pruning of unused resources
Mentor engineers and partner with adjacent teams to embed application abstractions into golden paths, raising organizational fluency and consistency in software engineering
Build automated policies and processes to ensure good code deployment practices, code hygiene, good code test practices

Qualifications

8+ years of experience building developer tooling and deployment patterns
Comfortable with performing PoC to evaluate new technology: AI Platform, AI models, introducing new developer experience products.
Proficiency in at least one language (Go, TypeScript, Python, C#) and disciplined SCM workflows (branching, reviews, automated gates)
Deep working knowledge architecture knowledge of designing, developing and deploying application to Amazon EKS
Deep working knowledge of CI/CD build pipeline with Github or Gitlab
Competence leveraging observability & SLOs (metrics, tracing, structured logs, L4/L7 telemetry, end‑to‑end request path, visibility into applied policies, SLI/SLO definition & enforcement)
Experience with using Terraform or CDK, GitOps (GH Actions, Gitlab CI), progressive/canary rollouts, policy-as-code integration
Experience with AI-assisted development process and understand how to navigate benefits and challenges of leveraging AI to accelerate deliverables

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary range for this role is $165,000 - $200,000 + 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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Senior Platform Engineer (DevX)

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