Site Reliability Engineer (Network)
Loft Orbital Solutions3 months ago
Base Salary
$157k - $239k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud and hybrid network architecture, including VPNs, site-to-site connectivity, segmentation, routing, DNS, and firewalling.
- Improve network security through segmentation, access controls, and connectivity hardening.
- Manage network infrastructure as code using IaC, CI/CD, and GitOps workflows.
- Define SLOs and build observability using metrics, logs, and tracing for connectivity and ground-station availability.
- Investigate reliability issues, perform root-cause analysis, implement durable fixes, and automate operational toil.
- Participate in broader SRE platform reliability, expansion, incident response, planning, and user-support activities.
- Coordinate with IT and Test Infrastructure on physical infrastructure interfaces and secure test-equipment access.
Requirements
- 4–5 years of network engineering experience with deep hands-on experience in routing, VPN/site-to-site connectivity, segmentation, DNS, and firewalling.
- Hands-on experience managing software-defined networks programmatically and as code.
- Strong public-cloud networking experience, ideally with GCP VPCs, peering, and hybrid connectivity.
- Experience operating Kubernetes and Docker platforms, with occasional coding.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and CI/CD-driven GitOps workflows.
- Understanding of SRE practices including SLOs, observability, automation, and toil reduction.
- Ability to debug connectivity issues in complex hybrid network environments.
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Network certification such as CCNP or similar is a preferred qualification.
- Experience with ArgoCD or FluxCD, FinOps, cost-optimized architectures, security practices, or resource-constrained orchestration is preferred.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance options for employees and dependents, with FSA and HSA accounts and an employer HSA contribution.
- Employer-paid life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Flexible time off, 12 paid holidays, a 401(k) plan, and equity options.
- Daily catered lunches and snacks in the office, relocation assistance when applicable, and international team exposure.
- Fully paid parental leave of 14 weeks for birthing parents and 10 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Inclusive fertility and family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility.
- Off-sites, social events, and celebrations; the posting indicates offices in San Francisco, Golden, and Toulouse.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions builds standardized satellite platforms and delivers end-to-end missions as a service for governments, companies, and research institutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held firm integrates, launches, and operates spacecraft to deploy Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on‑orbit compute, and national security payloads in months. Loft has flown more than 30 missions, using hardware and software abstraction layers atop commodity satellite buses.