Software Engineer Internship

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.

More Information On Skynopy

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 real missions, customer needs, and operational constraints — a rare and valuable view into how a space company truly works.

Location : Paris, France

Type: Internship (6 months)