Job Specifications
Establish first contact with satellites freshly delivered to space?
Have a positive impact on the space industry by leveraging existing assets?
Then, it’s time to join Skynopy!
Skynopy is a fast-growing New Space company building the next generation of ground infrastructure to connect with satellites around the world.
Founded in September 2023 by two former directors at Loft Orbital (Next40), Skynopy has grown to a team of 20 and already operates a global network of 30 antennas worldwide. We are developing the most responsive, secure, and scalable satellite connectivity platform on the market — and have recently raised a €15M seed round to accelerate the deployment of sovereign, cloud-integrated, scalable antennas. By combining our own antennas with a global network of partners, we enable seamless, API-driven access to satellite data.
We’re always looking for talented people who share our ambition and want to play a role in shaping the future of space connectivity. Even if no current position fits your profile, feel free to send a spontaneous application — we’re excited to meet curious, driven individuals eager to grow with us.
ℹ More Information On Skynopy
https://spacenews.com/france-backs-skynopys-global-expansion-with-plans-for-100-ground-antennas/
https://www.maddyness.com/2025/06/30/new-space-skynopy-leve-15-millions-deuros-pour-epauler-les-operateurs-de-satellites-au-sol/
https://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-finance/industrie/aeronautique-defense/pourquoi-la-startup-skynopy-a-tout-pour-devenir-un-grand-du-spatial-1028521.html
Skynopy Infrastructure
Skynopy is building a secure, cloud-integrated platform that lets satellite operators communicate with their satellites through one unified interface. Our system combines our own antennas, partner networks, and private stations connected through Skynopy technology.
Core Components Include
A central API for booking and monitoring satellite contacts
Real-time data streaming and delivery pipelines
Automated workers for station configuration and management
Logging, monitoring, and storage for mission and operational data
Job Description —KPI & Data Platform
We are looking for a Software Engineering Intern to help improve the foundation of Skynopy’s monitoring and KPI platform, used daily to operate our antennas and demonstrate service performance to customers.
You will work at the intersection of backend development, cloud infrastructure, and satellite operations, transforming live operational data into production-grade metrics, alerts, and dashboards.
This is a hands-on engineering role on distributed systems, running across on-premise and cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on backend development and observability stacks.
You will focus on two main components: the operational part and the business KPIs.
Operations & Satellite Monitoring
Design and develop backend services within a distributed, event-driven architecture
Process data from satellite passes and ground stations using brokers and streaming pipelines
Work with metrics, logs, and alerting to monitor system and mission health
Debug and analyze anomalies in production systems during real satellite contacts
Business KPIs & SLAs
Build robust data pipelines to compute customer KPIs
Expose performance indicators through APIs and streaming protocols
Aggregate data from on-prem and cloud systems into unified metrics
Support automated SLA tracking with reliable, reproducible measurements
You will contribute to real satellite operations, working on production distributed systems, with modern backend and observability technologies, and a direct impact on reliability and customer trust.
Qualifications
We’re looking for strong engineering students with solid software fundamentals.
Required
Strong academic background in software concepts
Good programming skills (know at least one programming language such as Python)
Solid understanding of relational databases
Interest in data engineering, observability, and backend systems
Nice to have
Experience with AWS or cloud environments
Familiarity with logging/metrics dashboards (Grafana, Datadog, etc.)
Curiosity for space systems and satellite operations
Learning opportunities
Joining Skynopy means learning at the heart of a fast-growing space startup, surrounded by experts and real satellite operations.
Learn a Real Engineering Job — and Grow Fast Build a complete data platform from scratch while applying modern backend, cloud, and data-engineering best practices.
You’ll be mentored daily by senior engineers who will help you level up your software skills rapidly.
Learn the Space Industry From the Inside Work in a NewSpace company where engineering decisions directly impact satellites in orbit.
You’ll experience the unique pace, mindset, and challenges of a startup operating real space infrastructure.
Learn How the Business Actually Runs Collaborate closely with our satellite operations team, gaining firsthand exposure to