Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Description:

I am working with an exciting venture-backed startup, who build autonomous solutions for the space industry.

Specializing in cutting-edge satellite technology & solutions, they offer a range of innovative products designed to enhance satellite operations and improve the management of satellite fleets.

These solutions help satellite operators and organizations in the space industry optimize their resources, streamline their processes, and ultimately achieve greater efficiency and performance. Their products cover areas such as satellite tracking, data management, and communication, enabling their clients to better monitor and control their satellite assets. Their technology plays a crucial role in advancing satellite operations and contributing to the ongoing development of space exploration and communication.

Role Responsibilities:

• Play an ownership role in the software operations process by establishing and refining processes and best practices for deploying and maintaining production deployments.
• Implement and maintain tools and processes for monitoring production system status, and establish systems to communicate relevant system health information to internal and external parties
• Measure and optimize system performance from a deployment perspective, and work with software engineers to develop and support cloud-native solutions to maximize performance
• Work with software engineers to develop and execute reliable and maintainable deployment solutions
• Provide expert operational support for cloud-based software applications
• Play a leading role in administering and maintaining production and internal Kubernetes clusters
• Be a strong advocate for security, robustness, and reliability in solution architecture discussions

About You

You are a seasoned developer with extensive experience in both developing and deploying production software systems in a cloud-based environment. You passionately advocate for and pursue solutions which promote speed, safety, and scalability. You are both a technical expert and a natural leader, who is ready to establish systems and processes to help distribute your deep technical experience to your fellow team members. You work to establish a friendly, productive, and collaborative team environment, and you fundamentally understand the complex tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and time to market. You know how to interpret requirements and requests from different types of stakeholders, and you are comfortable independently synthesizing and organizing those requirements into tangible units of work.

Qualifications

Extensive experience with:

• Kubernetes, Helm, Docker
• AWS
• Linux/Unix Operating Systems
• Networking fundamentals (common L7 protocols, TCP/IP, VPCs, CDNs, DNS, etc)
• Databases, including common SQL and NoSQL systems
• CI/CD Pipelines

Strong familiarity with:

• MacOS
• Python
• Agile Software Development & Kanban
• Team leadership and creating strong engineering processes and policies
• Asynchronous message queue systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc)

Ability to quickly get up to speed with:

• Gitlab CI/CD
• ArgoCD
• AWS CDK / Infrastructure as Code
• System-level software development (C, C++, Rust, etc)
• AWS Marketplace / Well-Architected Framework

Job Location

• This is an onsite position in Denver, CO

Compensation

Total compensation for this role is base salary + company equity

Base salary range: $110,000 - $190,000

Benefits and Perks

• Competitive salary
• Company equity
• Great health insurance (medical, dental, vision) and 401k
• Lunch catered weekly for Colorado office
• Opportunity to have impact on a global scale for space sustainability