Vast
Staff DevOps Engineer
Long Beach, California, USA · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$159k-$227kDetected 60 days ago
JavaScriptPythonGoDistributed SystemsCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsKafkaCybersecurityIncident ResponseElectrical EngineeringLoad TestingResearch
About the role
- Next, Haven-1 is expected to become the world's first commercial space station when it launches, followed by additional Haven modules to enable permanent human presence by 2030.
- If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us.
- This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
Responsibilities
- Develop and support CI/CD pipelines, automating the build, test, and release of frontend and backend applications for the Mission Software Team.
- Collaborate with Flight Software teams to streamline release management and integrated testing between physical and simulated flight assets and the supporting mission software.
- Design and help operate a highly secure and stable cloud environment to support in-flight missions with the suite of mission software services.
- Assist in the initial design of this environment as well as the migration of deployed services from development environments to the mission environment.
- Drive the operational requirements and procedures for mission software services and take ownership of reliability engineering; ensure the proper tooling is in place for monitoring and maintaining continuous uptime.
- Help build the technical and cultural groundwork for a DevOps organization at Vast.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
- 3+ years of experience in application development with Python, Go, or Javascript/Typescript.
- Experience maintaining large-scale data systems (measured in TB and kHz) with strict SLAs and high criticality.
- Deep experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
- Ability to effectively triage priorities, communicate initiatives and timelines, and promote DevOps skills and culture within a fast-paced organization.
Skills
- Expertise in building and testing distributed Golang applications.
- Expertise in optimally configuring and maintaining Kafka clusters.
- Expertise in setting strategy for incident response and remediation.
- Experience driving security and code quality standards through automated scanners applied to the codebase (SAST + SCA).
- Experience with self-hosted observability instrumentation in distributed systems (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.).
- $159,000 - $226,980
- $188,600 - $267,700
Compensation
- Senior DevOps Engineer: $159,000 - $226,980 Staff DevOps Engineer: $188,600 - $267,700
- California $159,000-$267,700 USD COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS Base salary will vary depending on job-related knowledge, education, skills, experience, business needs, and market demand.
- Salary is just one component of our comprehensive compensation package.
Benefits
- Build and expand on an internal developer portal that includes runbooks, incident response management, centralized API registry, service health metrics, and more.
Equal opportunity
- Vast is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Vast is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Visa & Work Authorization
- EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U
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