THE OPPORTUNITY 

KSATlite’s platform orchestrates thousands of satellite contacts every day across a global ground network, reliably, automatically, and at scale. The software that makes this happen is built and owned by two small teams of experienced engineers who care deeply about what they ship. 

We are looking for several Senior Software Developers to take key roles in designing, building, and operating the microservices and APIs that power KSATlite’s platform. We have openings for of our Assets & Scheduling domain, and for our Monitor & Control domain. In these roles, you will help set technical direction, lead initiatives from idea to production, and shape a pragmatic delivery culture where quality and speed coexist. This is hands-on engineering, you will be in the code, in architecture discussions, and in production. 

The position can be based in Tromsø, Trondheim, or Oslo. Candidates must be eligible to obtain Norwegian security clearance. 

 

WHAT YOU WILL DO  

Depending on the team you join, your responsibilities will include some or all of the following:

  • Design and implement backend services with a focus on performance, security, and resilience
  • Build and maintain Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Assets & Scheduling: AKS, Container Apps, Functions, Service Bus, Event Hubs)
  • Own and improve CI/CD pipelines
  • Lead technical initiatives and contribute to architecture decisions
  • Observability and SRE practices: logging, metrics, tracing, SLOs, and incident management
  • Data modelling and service integrations
  • Code reviews, test strategy, and continuous quality improvement
  • Mentor and support other developers in the team 

 

WHAT YOU BRING 

  • 5+ years of backend development experience in production environments 

  • Strong proficiency in one or more systems-level languages: 

  • Assets & Scheduling: primarily Kotlin and Rust; C#, Java, or C++ experience is relevant 

  • Monitor & Control: primarily Go and Rust; Kotlin and Python experience is relevant 

  • Solid understanding of distributed systems, API design, and event-driven architecture 

  • Hands-on experience with cloud (Azure) and container orchestration (Docker, AKS, Container Apps) 

  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code in a cloud environment 

  • A security mindset: you think about production risks early, not as an afterthought 

  • Good written and spoken English; Norwegian is an advantage 

 

WHO YOU ARE  

  • Decisive and structured — you drive things to completion without waiting to be asked 

  • Collaborative and knowledge-sharing — you make the people around you better 

  • Quality-conscious and pragmatic — you know when ‘good enough’ is right and when it isn’t 

  • Comfortable with ownership, visibility, and making calls in ambiguous situations 

  • You build with AI: Copilot, Claude, or whatever works — AI tooling is part of your standard toolkit, not something you’re curious about one day trying 

 

TECHNOLOGIES WE WORK WITH  

 

NICE TO HAVE 

  • Experience with full stack development 

  • Familiarity with NIST security standards or cloud security certifications 

  • Background in the space, satellite, or defense industry 

 

KSAT - A Stellar Workplace

We are a rapidly growing organization with solid finances. With us, you get skilled and committed colleagues, a flexible and varied everyday life, opportunities to grow and a unique opportunity to help develop an exciting future for KSAT. If this wasn't enough, we also offer, among other things:

  • We are a social group who do things outside of work, both under the auspices of the company and on private initiative. Here you will be included from day one.
  • Competitive salary conditions, training courses, training room at work that employees are free to use, very good health insurance and pension schemes, telephone and mobile subscriptions, company cabin, support for sports, etc.
  • An environment you are guaranteed to learn from - regardless of your level of expertise today. You will join an environment with high competence and with a strong desire and will to deliver world-class quality - at all levels of the organisation.

 

KSAT sees the importance to ensure diversity in the company by taking gender, age, and cultural background into account during recruitment. Candidates must be eligible to obtain Norwegian security clearance. This is a firm requirement for the position, and candidates in final stages will go through a background check done by Semac.

Get to know us better through - SPACE UP YOUR CAREERhttps://karriere.ksat.no/ - we are looking forward to hearing from you!

Senior Software Developer

Category:  Other
Location: 

Tromsø, NO, 9011

Job Type:  Regular
Application Deadline:  24.05.2026

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