2 months ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$175k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design Crucible’s cloud platform, infrastructure services, networking, and deployment patterns.
- Build and operate Kubernetes, cloud services, networking, and infrastructure across development and production environments.
- Develop and evolve Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows.
- Design secure cloud controls covering identity, access, network boundaries, and secrets.
- Improve deployment processes, environments, tooling, and development workflows across infrastructure and application repositories.
- Build observability, recovery, deployment safety, and operational tooling for reliable production operations.
- Extend the platform across commercial cloud, GovCloud, on-premise, and disconnected environments.
Requirements
- 6+ years of cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE experience with production systems.
- Deep experience designing cloud architectures and operating production cloud environments.
- Deep production Kubernetes experience.
- Strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code fundamentals.
- Strong cloud networking, Linux, identity, and security fundamentals.
- Experience building CI/CD, deployment, and GitOps systems.
- Experience with production observability and debugging distributed systems.
- Strong software engineering or scripting skills across application and infrastructure code.
- Ability to design cloud solutions from ambiguous product and engineering requirements.
- U.S. person status is required due to ITAR regulations.
- Preferred: experience with AWS and AWS GovCloud, Helm, Argo CD, Istio, secure multi-account or multi-environment architectures, IAM, OIDC/OAuth2, secrets management, PKI, workload identity, containerized on-premise or air-gapped deployments, and early or rapidly scaling software platforms.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan.
- Equity grants for new hires.
- Unlimited PTO and a generous holiday calendar, including July and December holiday hiatuses.
- Generous parental leave.
- Lifestyle Spending Account, FSA, DCFSA, and HSA.
- Hospital indemnity, critical illness, accident, life, and disability insurance; basic life/AD&D and short- and long-term disability insurance are 100% covered by Firestorm.
- Free 24/7 mental health resources and additional work-life services including legal and financial support.
- Based in San Diego, CA; local candidates and candidates open to relocating are welcome, and relocation assistance may be included in the offer package.
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About Firestorm
Firestorm builds modular, open-architecture unmanned systems and mission-configurable hardware for defense customers, leveraging additive manufacturing to rapidly tailor platforms for diverse Department of Defense mission areas. Its fielded xCell platform is being developed in multiple variants and supported across mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing interfaces. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Diego, the privately held company sells hardware platforms and components to U.S. and allied military programs.