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Sr. Full Stack Engineer

Xona· Engineering
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Burlingame, California$140k - $200kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior full-stack engineer responsible for designing and building the platform that commands spacecraft, monitors real-time telemetry, and supports flight operations across development, test, and on-orbit environments for Xona Space Systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end design, development, testing, and deployment of mission control software that supports spacecraft commanding, real-time telemetry monitoring, and flight operations.
  • Design and implement scalable backend services, microservices, and REST APIs that enable real-time command and control interfaces.
  • Build responsive, high-performance front-end user interfaces optimized for spacecraft constellation management and flight operations at scale.
  • Design, implement, and optimize SQL and NoSQL data models, ensuring high performance and reliability under operational workloads.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud-based deployments.
  • Monitor application performance, logs, and reliability metrics to ensure system stability and operational readiness.
  • Support containerized deployments using Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and cross-functional engineering teams to define scope, requirements, and delivery timelines.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience.
  • Expertise in at least one modern front-end framework (React, Angular, or Vue).
  • Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python or Node.js.
  • Hands-on experience designing and consuming RESTful (and/or GraphQL) APIs.
  • Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB).
  • Solid knowledge of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and system resiliency.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience deploying and operating cloud-based systems on platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Skills

Required:Frontend frameworkBackend languageAPI designDatabasesDistributed systemsCI/CDContainerizationCloud platforms
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Xona

Next Era Navigational Intelligence | Xona

Xona is the navigation infrastructure company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth.

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