Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Astranis • San Francisco, CA

110d • $130,000 - $160,000

About The Position

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe— large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military. With five satellites on orbit and many more set to launch soon, the company is servicing a backlog of more than $1 billion of commercial contracts. Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent requirements for uptime, data security, network visibility, and customization. Astranis has raised over $750 million from some of the world’s best investors, from Andreessen Horowitz to Blackrock and Fidelity, and employs a team of 450 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs, builds, and operates its satellites out of its 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA.

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

Nice To Haves

• 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)

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

Benefits

• Equity in the form of incentive stock options
• High quality company-subsidized healthcare
• Disability and life insurance benefits
• Flexible PTO
• 401(K) retirement
• Free on-site catered meals

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees