Backend Software Engineer (Internet Services Simulation)
SimSpace Corporation3 months ago
Remote, Costa RicaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and operate Kubernetes-based deployment automation for the simulated service catalog, including configuration, health monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Build and maintain content-seeding pipelines that scrape, transform, and inject realistic content into simulated services.
- Own authoritative DNS for simulated domains and maintain mail, sender-authentication, delegation, and service-consistency records.
- Build and maintain email delivery infrastructure for realistic and adversarial email scenarios.
- Coordinate with the identity and persona team to provision service accounts and maintain per-service user state.
- Instrument and monitor simulated services using the Grafana-based observability stack.
- Contribute to APIs that allow platform components and external orchestration systems to create and manage simulated services.
Requirements
- Strong bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish across written, virtual, and in-person interactions is required.
- Experience deploying and operating containerized services in Kubernetes, including deployment configuration and automation for heterogeneous applications.
- Hands-on experience operating self-hosted open-source platforms such as mail servers or social media instances.
- Working knowledge of authoritative DNS, zone delegation, and email-authentication records.
- Familiarity with email delivery infrastructure, sender authentication, envelope construction, and authentication headers.
- Experience with web scraping, data transformation pipelines, or content generation.
- Ability to work across a broad and heterogeneous service catalog.
- Familiarity with PKI and TLS fundamentals is preferred.
- Cybersecurity, red-team infrastructure, or cyber range experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Private medical, dental, vision, and life benefits.
- Company-paid counseling, coaching, and family resources through Spring Health.
- Paid parental leave.
- Equity stock options at hire and annual performance-based grants.
- LinkedIn Learning membership.
- Monthly reimbursements for teammate connections through the SocialSpace Community.
Tech Stack
About SimSpace Corporation
SimSpace builds cyber ranges and a live-fire simulation platform used by governments, militaries, and large enterprises to train cyber teams, validate defenses, and test AI agents. The company sells software and expert services for training, threat emulation, and technology evaluation in replicas of production environments. Founded in 2015 by veterans of U.S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, SimSpace is privately held and headquartered in Orlando, Florida.