Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Varda Space Industries6 months ago
El Segundo, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$153k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deploy, maintain, and operate mission-critical applications and infrastructure supporting spacecraft and company-wide systems.
- Build and evolve Infrastructure as Code frameworks using Terraform and related provisioning and configuration-management tools.
- Implement observability systems covering metrics, logging, tracing, and actionable alerting.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for safe, repeatable, rapid deployments.
- Partner with software and hardware engineers to provide reliable systems, pipelines, tools, and infrastructure.
- Identify bottlenecks and reliability risks, perform performance tuning, and implement long-term stability improvements.
- Respond to production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive corrective actions through blameless postmortems.
- Participate in the team on-call rotation and work extended hours or weekends as needed.
- Travel occasionally to customer sites and other Varda locations to troubleshoot, deploy, or test critical infrastructure.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related STEM field with 5+ years of Site Reliability Engineering experience, or 7+ years of progressive DevOps, SRE, or Systems Engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform for server provisioning and configuration management.
- Production experience operating Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, or similar observability technologies.
- Knowledge of software-defined networking concepts including VPCs, subnets, firewalls, and VPNs.
- Scripting experience with Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Preferred experience provisioning and managing scalable Azure cloud infrastructure.
- Preferred experience with Ansible, Salt, ArgoCD, configuration management, workflow automation, CI/CD, and GitOps.
- Preferred understanding of Linux systems and container runtimes such as containerd and Docker.
- Preferred experience with GPU workloads, high-throughput computing, HPC environments, Slurm, hybrid cloud and on-premises or edge systems, distributed systems debugging, databases, and data modeling.
Benefits
- On-site work in El Segundo, California.
- Eligibility for long-term incentives in the form of stock options and/or long-term cash awards.
- On-call rotation with occasional travel to customer sites and other Varda locations.
- Extended hours and weekend work may be required as needed.
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Varda Space Industries
Varda Space Industries builds and operates in-orbit manufacturing platforms and reentry capsules so pharmaceutical and materials companies can produce goods in microgravity and return them to Earth. The company designs its W‑Series vehicles in-house, including pharmaceutical processing payloads, capsules, heat shields, and satellite buses, and sells manufacturing and reentry services to commercial customers. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in El Segundo, California, it also has offices in Washington, DC and Huntsville, Alabama.