Space infrastructure and satellite operations for global mission-critical services
SSC Space operates a 50-year-old aerospace infrastructure business built on ground stations, rocket testing, and spacecraft mission control. The tech stack is heavily infrastructure-focused—Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and IaC tooling dominate, with real-time systems (Apache Airflow, Spark, Flink, MQTT) for mission operations—indicating a shift toward automated, cloud-native mission control and monitoring. The hiring mix skews engineering (16 of 25 active roles) at mid-level, suggesting scale-up of operational teams to support orbital launch capability development and expanding ground station integration.
Notable leadership hires: Head of PMO
SSC Space is a public aerospace company headquartered in Solna, Sweden, with ~750 employees across multiple continents. The business spans satellite communications, spacecraft operations, launch services, and ground station networks, including the strategically important Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden positioned as a mainline European launch provider. Revenue streams serve research institutes, commercial operators, and institutional clients across Earth observation, telecommunications, meteorology, navigation, and scientific research. Operations are capital-intensive and mission-critical: the company manages satellite control services, real-time mission operations, and infrastructure for third-party space access.
Primary: AWS (EKS, ECS, Fargate, CloudWatch), Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, GitHub Actions for CI/CD. Real-time ops: Apache Airflow, Spark, Flink, MQTT. Ground station: Linux, Python, Bash, SQL. Monitoring: Grafana. Infrastructure management: Ansible, AWS CodePipeline.
Key projects: orbital launch capability development, real-time mission control systems, launch complex 3 build-out, infrastructure-as-code tooling, CI/CD pipeline development, monitoring stack design, and ground station integration for customer satellite connectivity.
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