Senior Security Engineer

Senior Security Engineer

Location : Golden, CO or San Francisco, CA

Description

Loft Orbital is revolutionizing access to space by building reliable, shareable satellites that drastically reduce the time and complexity traditionally required to get to orbit. We operate satellites, fly customer payloads, and handle entire missions from end‑to‑end. Our team of space enthusiasts, software experts, and cutting‑edge technologists work together to make space simple for our customers.

As a Senior Security Engineer on our Security and Compliance Team, you will ensure that our highly automated, containerized, and globally distributed infrastructure remains secure throughout its lifecycle, from architecture to incident response. You will be at the heart of our DevSecOps efforts, collaborating directly with infrastructure, software, product, and solution teams to scale Loft’s security maturity while embracing our startup agility and culture.

This hands‑on, deeply collaborative role offers broad scope, rapid growth opportunities, and a chance to contribute to space missions.

About the Role

• Champion DevSecOps best practices by designing and implementing security controls directly into CI / CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI).
• Lead and automate application and infrastructure security assessments, including threat modeling and code review.
• Partner with developers and SREs to identify, remediate, and prevent vulnerabilities through secure design and practical guidance.
• Design, build, and maintain secure architecture patterns for containerized, cloud‑native, and distributed workloads.
• Develop and maintain automated security tooling, such as container image scanning, IaC validation, and policy‑as‑code.
• Collaborate on automated security tooling for container image scanning, IaC validation, and RBAC compliance.
• Support incident response workflows, including detection, forensics, root cause analysis, and post‑mortems.
• Provide technical mentorship and real‑time enablement to help teams adopt a "secure‑by‑default" mindset.
• Contribute to internal security tools and automation using Python, Go, or other modern languages.
• Continuously improve how we measure and scale security across our SRE and infrastructure platforms.

Must Have

Nice to Have

Understanding of software‑defined networking and security policy enforcement in mesh environments.

Benefits

Compensation

Salary range : $140,250 – $190,000 per year. The range is intentional and reflects differences in experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

EEO Statement

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft, we value respectful debate and people who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes.

Who We Are

Loft : Space Made Simple. Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a quick, reliable, and flexible way to launch missions in orbit. We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end‑to‑end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, in‑orbit demonstrations, national security missions, and more. With more than 25 missions flown, Loft’s proven technology enables customers to focus on their mission objectives.

With four satellites on‑orbit and a wave of exciting missions launching soon, we are scaling up across San Francisco, CO and Toulouse, France. The team is international, so strong English skills are required for collaboration.

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