Senior Platform Engineer

Inversion•Los Angeles, CA

2d•$139,000 - $201,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Inversion, you will work as part of the simulation team to develop and manage the infrastructure that supports the simulation and test environments for our flight systems. The simulation team is responsible for ensuring that flight software and flight hardware can be continuously integrated and tested under realistic flight conditions. You will play a key role in the design and implementation of infrastructure-agnostic platforms and self-service tools that will enable fast, repeatable development and deployment workflows across the engineering stack. Your work will empower Inversion’s engineering teams to iterate rapidly throughout the development life cycle and will strengthen Inversion’s ability to put our products into the hands of our customers with unprecedented speed and agility.

Requirements

5+ years of professional experience in platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or software engineering
Expertise in DevOps best practices
Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (Python, Lua, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
Experience with Linux-based systems
Experience with one or more CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
Experience with containerization (Docker/Podman) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Nice To Haves

Expertise in IaaS (AWS and GCP)
Expertise in IaC (Terraform)
Expertise in database administration and network administration
Familiarity with system observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
Experience with embedded systems
Experience with SIL, HIL, or robotics testbeds
Familiarity with Linux-based real-time systems
Familiarity with cloud-based/distributed HPC

Responsibilities

Provision, deploy, and maintain infrastructure to support simulation workflows, including high-performance computing (HPC), software-in-the-loop (SIL) testing, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
Leverage infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to enable scalability and resource optimization
Leverage automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) to manage infrastructure efficiently
Leverage containerization and orchestration to enable modern, scalable, and resilient application deployments
Work closely with developers/engineers to design, implement, and manage continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to improve iteration speed and flight system reliability
Configure network hardware, manage cloud resources, and ensure network security and performance
Contribute to the design and development of a simulation system capable of automatically provisioning and deploying resources to support simulation workflows