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Senior Application Data Engineer

K2 Space· Software
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Los Angeles, CA$160k - $200kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Application Data Engineer position for K2 Space in Los Angeles, CA. Role focuses on building the data backbone for satellite design, manufacturing, and mission operations, with emphasis on data architecture, ETL/real-time data pipelines, and collaboration across engineering, production, and mission control to enable rapid delivery of spacecraft from concept to orbit.

Responsibilities

  • Develop highly reliable data solutions used across K2 Space — from factory floors to mission control.
  • Create and evolve data design that improve how we design, build, and operate our spacecraft.
  • Partner closely with engineers, business partners, and leaders across disciplines to understand their challenges and design efficient solutions.
  • Own data solutions from concept to full fledge product.
  • Lead data architecture designs, drive data optimization, ensure data integrity and accuracy.
  • Evaluate and make decisions regarding competing data design tradeoffs.
  • Advocate, defend and convert other engineering leaders to your own solutions.
  • Use data to drive prioritization of work and design of solutions to create the largest positive impact.
  • Actively contribute to building a culture of transparency, empathy, integrity, and engineering excellence.
  • Actively mentoring other staff members and help team members build good culture and engineering practices.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics or a STEM discipline or 12+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
  • Strong working experience with data modeling, including schema design such as entities, relationships, data constraints
  • Strong working experience with data migration process, including data normalization, schema mapping, data serialization, data pipeline, ETL, real-time or near real-time data replication, data mirroring.
  • 8+ years of in-depth experience with structured databases such as MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake.
  • 5+ years of in-depth experience with hosted database solutions such as AWS RDS, AWS PostgreSQL.
  • 3+ years of working experience with CI/CD deployment.
  • Working experience with Docker.
  • Working experience with Kubernetes (prefer AWS EKS).
  • 3+ years of experience with unstructured databases such as NoSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB or similar.
  • Working experience with REST API.

Skills

Required:Data modelingData migration and ETLSQL databasesHosted database solutionsCI/CDDockerKubernetesNoSQLREST API

Benefits

  • Base salary range for this role is $160,000 – $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
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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