Loft builds the space infrastructure that lets any company, government or institution harness the benefits of space.
We have developed a standardized satellite platform that can be configured to fly any customer mission. With our own hardware and software abstraction layers on top of a commodity satellite bus, our platform is truly turnkey and plug-and-play.
Loft builds the space infrastructure that lets any company, government or institution harness the benefits of space.
We have developed a standardized satellite platform that can be configured to fly any customer mission. With our own hardware and software abstraction layers on top of a commodity satellite bus, our platform is truly turnkey and plug-and-play.
What they do: Turnkey standardized satellite platforms and on-orbit services (physical payload hosting and virtual missions)
Founded: 2017
HQ / offices: San Francisco; operations in Golden, CO and Toulouse, France
Latest raise: $170M Series C (announced Jan 2025)
Total funding (approx.): $330M
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Space infrastructure and satellite-hosting services for commercial and government customers
Founded
2017
Industry
Defense and Space Manufacturing
Funding Track Record
Series C- January 2025
$170M
Series C announced Jan 14–15, 2025; participants included Temasek, Uncork Capital, Foundation Capital and others
Investor Signal
“Raised a $170M Series C co-led by Tikehau Capital and Axial Partners with participation from institutional investors (e.g., Temasek); broad investor base across prior rounds”
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Deep experience with cloud security in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments
Strong knowledge of container and Kubernetes security in production environments
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, Go, C++)
Hands-on experience with zero-trust architecture, service mesh, and software-defined networking
Solid understanding of DevSecOps pipelines, IaC tools, and secure build processes
Hands-on experience with vulnerability scanning, SAST/DAST tools, and automated security testing
Proven success in fast-paced, highly collaborative environments, ideally at a startup or scale-up
Comfortable working closely with developers and SREs in an enablement-first security culture
Clear, concise communication and documentation skills
Ability to thrive in a multicultural, globally distributed engineering team
Practical experience with policy-as-code (OPA, Sentinel, etc.)
Understanding of software-defined networking and security policy enforcement in mesh environments
Familiarity with modern SRE practices, observability, and resilience engineering
Contributions to open-source security tools or frameworks
Interest or experience in space operations or aerospace systems
What the job involves
As a Senior Security Engineer on our Security and Compliance Team, your mission will be to ensure that our highly automated, containerized, and globally distributed infrastructure remains secure throughout its lifecycle, from architecture to incident response
You’ll 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 is a hands-on, deeply collaborative role, offering broad scope, rapid growth opportunities, and yes, a chance to contribute to space missions
Champion DevSecOps best practices by designing and implementing security controls directly into our 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
