KSAT Hyper seeks Backend Software Developer (Distributed Systems)

Location: Oslo/Tromsø/Stockholm
Employment Type: Full-time Employment
Reporting To: Head of Software, Hyper
Security Requirement: European citizen; eligible for NATO Secret clearance

About KSAT Hyper

Hyper is a strategic initiative by Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) to redefine how space data is delivered, secured, and used. By extending the world's most trusted ground station network into low Earth orbit, Hyper is building a new layer of space infrastructure designed for speed, resilience, and sovereignty.

At its core, Hyper enables near-real-time access to space data anywhere on Earth. By combining an orbiting relay capability with KSAT's global ground network, Hyper drastically reduces latency between satellite tasking, data acquisition, and decision-making. This capability is increasingly critical for applications where timing, trust, and availability matter — including Earth observation, climate monitoring, security, defense, and commercial operations.

Hyper is not a single mission or a one-off system. It is a long-term infrastructure program designed to scale over time, support multiple customers and mission types, and integrate tightly with existing and future space systems. The first Hyper satellites are scheduled for launch in 2027, marking the transition from development to operations, and the starting point for a broader constellation and service evolution in the years that follow.

Joining Hyper means contributing to the early build-out of a strategically important space capability, working at the intersection of space systems, communications, and operations. The work is foundational, technically demanding, and mission-critical; it directly shapes how satellite services will be delivered at scale in the next decade.

Website: Hyper | Powered by KSAT

About Replica

Replica is our mission analysis and orchestration platform used to model and operate complex space networking scenarios. We build backend systems that coordinate workflows, reason about constraints, and provide reliable services under evolving requirements—supporting both internal operations and external customer-facing capabilities over time.

What you will do

• Design and implement distributed backend services that support orchestration, state management, and reliable execution of workflows.

• Build backend components in Rust and/or Python, with a focus on correctness, resilience, and operability.

• Work with distributed systems concepts such as replication, fault tolerance, consistency, and coordination in real-world systems.

• Contribute to networking and protocol-adjacent components where relevant (e.g., service-to-service communication patterns, queues, event logs).

• Raise the bar on system design: observability, load testing, incident learnings, and engineering best practices.

What we are looking for

• Professional experience developing backend applications in Rust and/or Python.

• Master's degree in a relevant field; equivalent experience may compensate for a degree.

• Experience working with distributed systems, including one or more of:

  • coordination/consensus concepts (e.g., Raft/Paxos-like approaches),

  • replicated state, concurrency control, idempotency,

  • reliability patterns (timeouts, retries, backpressure, circuit breakers),

  • networking and protocol fundamentals.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals: testing, code review, production debugging, and performance analysis.

• A collaborative team player who can work effectively across engineering and domain stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience designing APIs and service contracts for long-lived systems (versioning, compatibility).

• Familiarity with event-driven systems (streams, durable queues) and/or data stores with consistency trade-offs.

• Experience with async Rust, message-oriented middleware, or formal reasoning about failure modes.

• Interest in space networking concepts (e.g., DTN-like constraints, intermittent connectivity), not required.

How we work at KSAT Hyper
Hyper values speed with purpose, trust by design, and responsibility at scale. We are an engineering-led organization that builds critical space infrastructure through rigorous technical work, close collaboration, and a strong sense of ownership — across teams, partners, and borders.

What We Expect From You

• Ownership: You take responsibility for your work end-to-end and follow through on commitments

• Technical rigor: You care about how things work, challenge assumptions, and document decisions

• Judgment: You balance speed with quality, security, and long-term impact

• Collaboration: You work constructively across disciplines, cultures, and organizations

• Integrity: You act in a way that builds trust with colleagues, partners, and customers

What You Can Expect From Us

• Meaningful responsibility: You will work on systems that matter and are trusted by others

• High technical standards: You will be surrounded by people who care deeply about engineering and operations

• Long-term perspective: Decisions are made with durability, scalability, and responsibility in mind

• Collaboration and openness: You will work closely with experts across KSAT and partner organizations

• Room to shape the future: Hyper is early in its journey, your work will directly influence how this infrastructure evolves

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 in final stages will go through a background check done by Semac.

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

KSAT er verdens ledende kommersielle satellittsenter med base i Tromsø. KSAT utvikler og leverer data, informasjon og tjenester basert på satellitter, og vi har kunder over hele verden. Vi er over 400 ansatte lokalisert i Tromsø, Svalbard, Stockholm og Oslo. KSAT har stasjoner og antenner over hele verden, fra Tromsø og Svalbard i nord, via Panama, Singapore og Sør-Afrika, til Troll-stasjonen i Antarktis lengst sør. Antall kunder og bakkestasjoner vokser stadig, og denne sterke veksten gjør at vi nå trenger nye medarbeidere.