Senior Application Software Engineer

About the role

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 rise of heavy-lift launch vehicles is shifting the industry from an era of mass constraint to one of mass abundance, and we believe this new era demands a fundamentally different class of spacecraft. Engineered to survive the harshest radiation environments and to fully capitalize on today's and tomorrow's massive rockets, K2 satellites deliver unmatched capability at constellation scale and across multiple orbits.

With multiple launches in 2027 and plans to scale to 100 satellites a year, we're Building Bigger — helping develop the solar system and build toward a Kardashev Type II (K2) civilization. If you are a motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and you're excited about contributing to the success of a high-growth Series D-funded company, we'd love for you to apply.

The Role

As a Senior Application Software Engineer on our Enterprise Team, you will design and build mission-critical software that connects engineering, manufacturing, and operations. Your work will directly enable accelerated satellite design, rapid production, and reliable mission execution. You’ll collaborate closely with teams throughout K2 Space and deliver systems that improve efficiency, scale operations, and support ambitious missions.

Responsibilities

- Develop highly reliable software solutions used across K2 Space — from factory floors to mission control.

- Create and evolve applications 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.

- Build prototypes to test concepts, validate technical constraints and progress to production features.

- Own full-lifecycle feature development from inception to happy customers.

- Actively contribute to software architecture design, deployment strategy, coding standards and quality processes.

- Understand tradeoffs in competing engineering options and be able to articulate these tradeoffs to senior leadership to help drive decisions.

- Work with customers to drive adoption and make progress on product usability.

- 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.