El Segundo, California, United States Hybrid Employment

Varda Space Industries is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Tackle complex technical challenges using a broad set of modern technologies.
  • Use software engineering principles to automate operations and enhance system dependability, performance, and fault tolerance.
  • Create infrastructure that supports fast development cycles, spanning cloud platforms and embedded systems on spacecraft.
  • Influence infrastructure strategy and promote high operational standards in containerized and modern environments.
  • Deploy, manage, and support critical systems that power spacecraft operations and enterprise functions.
  • Develop and refine Infrastructure as Code frameworks using tools like Terraform.
  • Set up and maintain observability solutions including metrics, logs, and distributed tracing, with effective alerting.
  • Design and sustain CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, secure, and consistent software releases.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to build scalable, reliable systems and ensure access to necessary tools and infrastructure.
  • Detect, assess, and eliminate system bottlenecks and reliability threats through optimization and long-term fixes.
  • Address production outages, conduct root cause investigations, and lead improvements via post-incident reviews.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure continuous system availability and responsiveness.
  • Travel periodically to customer locations and company sites for deployment, testing, or troubleshooting of key systems.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — El Segundo, California, Washington, DC, Huntsville, AL

Other

Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed

About company
Varda Space Industries

Low Earth orbit is open for business. Varda is accelerating the development of commercial space infrastructure, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules.

Varda Space Industries is industrializing low Earth orbit. Reusable rockets have lowered the cost of access to space and opened up a range of in-space activities. Now that access to space is cheap, it’s what we do there that counts.

From new, life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optic cables, there is a world of products used on Earth today that can only be manufactured in space. Varda is accelerating innovation in the orbital economy by creating both the products and infrastructure needed so space can directly benefit life on Earth. Our mission is to expand the economic bounds of humankind.

Our team is uniquely suited to accomplish this goal, with leadership and staff comprised of veterans from SpaceX, Blue Origin, major pharmaceutical companies, and Silicon Valley. Varda was founded in January 2021 by Will Bruey and Delian Asparouhov with significant backing from world-class investors including Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, Caffeinated Capital, General Catalyst, and Also Capital.

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Category infrastructure
Posted 13 days ago