Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Firestorm•San Diego, CA

11h•$175,000 - $195,000•Onsite

About The Position

Firestorm builds uncrewed aircraft and the manufacturing network that produces them: full-capability plants, deployable xCell edge factories, and forward-deployed sites that stand up production near the point of need. Crucible is the software that runs that manufacturing network. It runs across commercial cloud, government cloud, factory, and air-gapped environments, with infrastructure that has to support rapid development, secure deployment, and reliable production operation. We are hiring a Senior or Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to expand the Infrastructure team supporting Crucible. You will help shape how Crucible runs in the cloud, working directly with software engineers to design, build, secure, and operate the platform as it grows.

Requirements

U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance
6+ years of cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE experience with production systems; with a proven track record of success
Deep experience with cloud architecture and operating production cloud environments
Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production
Strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code fundamentals
Strong cloud networking, Linux, identity, and security fundamentals
Experience building CI/CD, deployment, and GitOps systems
Experience with production observability and debugging distributed systems
Strong software engineering or scripting skills, including the ability to work across application and infrastructure code
Demonstrated ability to design cloud solutions from ambiguous product and engineering requirements

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS and AWS GovCloud
Experience with Helm, Argo CD, and service mesh technologies such as Istio
Experience designing secure multi-account or multi-environment cloud architectures
Experience with IAM, OIDC/OAuth2, secrets management, PKI, or workload identity
Experience deploying containerized systems into on-premise or air-gapped environments
Experience building infrastructure for an early or rapidly scaling software platform

Responsibilities

Design Crucible's cloud platform — Work with software teams to define the infrastructure, services, networking, and deployment patterns behind Crucible capabilities.
Build cloud infrastructure — Develop and operate Kubernetes, cloud services, networking, and infrastructure across development and production environments.
Own infrastructure as code — Build and evolve Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows.
Build secure cloud solutions — Design identity, access, network boundaries, secrets, and other cloud controls alongside platform security.
Improve developer velocity — Work across infrastructure and Crucible repositories to improve deployment, environments, tooling, and development workflows.
Make production reliable — Build observability, recovery, deployment safety, and operational tooling for Crucible.
Support complex deployments — Help extend the platform across commercial cloud, GovCloud, and on-premise or disconnected environments.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and visions plans
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Equity grants for new hires
Unlimited PTO
Extremely generous company holiday calendar, including a holiday hiatus in July & December.
Generous Parental Leave
Lifestyle Spending Account
FSA
DCFSA
HSA
Hospital Indemnity insurance
Critical Illness insurance
Accident insurance
Basic Life/AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, 100% covered by Firestorm. Plus, the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your family.
Mental Health Resources: We provide free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy and more. Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, are available to you as well.
Relocation assistance is available