Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Loft Orbital Solutionsover 1 year ago
Base Salary
$180k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with developers and satellite operators to foster a SatDevOps culture.
- Design, implement, maintain, and scale reliable infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment.
- Build tools, workflows, and environments that improve developer experience.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment workflows.
- Own and evolve observability systems covering metrics, tracing, and logs.
- Identify and resolve reliability issues, conduct root cause analyses, and implement long-term fixes.
- Design and operate Software Defined Networking solutions.
- Apply reliability, fault-tolerance, performance-tuning, and automation best practices.
Requirements
- Strong experience with public-cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, deployment, operations, and resource optimization.
- Ability to design and build scalable, highly available systems.
- Familiarity with Software Defined Networking concepts and tools.
- Experience implementing and maintaining observability stacks such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, Rust, C, C++, or Java.
- Hands-on experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automation.
- Proven experience in fast-paced, high-growth technical environments.
- Strong problem-solving, independent-operation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience with ArgoCD, FluxCD, FinOps, orchestration in resource-constrained environments, systems engineering tools, SDLC governance, security practices, vulnerability scanning, threat detection, and risk mitigation.
- A Master’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field is preferred.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance options for employees and dependents.
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts, including 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.
- International collaboration with the team in France.
- Fully paid parental leave of 14 weeks for birthing parents and 10 weeks for non-birthing parents and 10 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Carrot Fertility family-forming and fertility benefits with financial support.
- Off-sites, social events, and celebrations.
- Relocation assistance when applicable.
Tech Stack
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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.