Description
JOB TITLE: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer LOCATION: San Francisco
Astranis is building the future of space communication. As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you'll design and deploy scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure to support our mission-critical applications.
Your expertise will guide our company strategy in leveraging the cloud for hosting critical applications and improving developer productivity. This role supports both commercial and U.S. Government programs.
Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms that host mission-critical applications
- Harden infrastructure for resilience and build self-healing systems with minimal downtime
- Develop observability pipelines that give insight into cluster health and cost
- Partner with teams across the engineering org to ensure their application requirements and SLAs are met
- Champion best practices in software reliability, security, and scalability across the engineering org
Requirements:
- 3+ years experience in Infrastructure and/or Site Reliability engineering
- Bachelor of Science in a related discipline (e.g. Computer Science, Information Technology)
- Experience deploying and maintaining production Kubernetes clusters
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
- Proficiency with Python or other scripting language
- Understanding of cloud spend optimization and best practices for managing cost
Bonus:
- Experience with on prem or baremetal Kubernetes management
- Experience with GitOps tools (e.g. FluxCD, ArgoCD)
- Familiarity with observability stacks and implementing monitoring solutions (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana)
- Experience with secrets management (e.g. Vault, External Secrets)
- Experience with service meshes (e.g. Istio, Nginx)
What we offer:
All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits. Base pay is just one component of Astranis's total rewards package. Your compensation also includes a significant equity package via incentive stock options, high-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.
Astranis pay ranges are informed and defined through professional-grade salary surveys and compensation data sources. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and the level and scope of the position.
Base Salary $130,000-$160,000 USD
U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required (To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3))
Our mission and our products are meant to connect the world and everyone in it, regardless of gender, race, creed, or any other distinction. We believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we encourage all people to join our team and bring their unique perspective to help make us stronger.