Senior Site Reliability Engineer
About The Position
Lunar Outpost is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to support Stargate, its mission-agnostic Command and Control platform used by operators in mission control across Lunar Outpost missions, including the Lunar Terrain Vehicle program. The role focuses on managing Stargate production deployments, maintaining high availability and uptime, delivering reliable releases, and advancing operational excellence through monitoring, metrics, and infrastructure management. The position is based onsite Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Where applicable, employees may work remotely on Wednesdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Additional hours may be required based on business needs.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, DevOps, or a related discipline.
- Kubernetes administration experience with elevated cluster access in production environments.
- Strong software development experience in one or more programming languages, such as C++, Go, Node.js, or Python.
- Strong proficiency writing and maintaining Helm charts for complex, multi-component applications.
- Hands-on experience implementing canary deployments, blue-green deployments, and other progressive delivery patterns.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes infrastructure management, including persistent volumes, DNS and networking, load balancers, and secrets management.
- Production experience with GitOps workflows and Flux CD.
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing Go-based Kubernetes operators and controllers.
- Experience with AWS services, particularly EKS, Secrets Manager, VPC networking, IAM, and AWS Load Balancers.
- Experience with Karpenter for Kubernetes node autoscaling and cluster optimization.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation and observability platforms.
- Kubernetes certification such as CKA, CKAD, or CKS.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CDK.
- Experience implementing SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Kubernetes operators and controllers in Go to automate Stargate services’ deployment, configuration, scaling, and lifecycle management.
- Own and manage Stargate production releases and deployment pipelines using GitOps practices.
- Drive operational excellence through metrics collection, log aggregation, uptime monitoring, KPI tracking, and SIM Integration.
- Maintain and achieve uptime service-level agreements of 99.99% to 99.999%.
- Design, develop, and maintain Helm charts for Stargate and related infrastructure components.
- Implement progressive deployment strategies, including canary and blue-green deployments.
- Oversee critical Kubernetes infrastructure, including volume management, DNS configuration, load balancer provisioning, and secrets monitoring and management.
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes deployments and related AWS services.
- Implement and maintain an observability stack using OpenTelemetry for monitoring and alerting.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 70% of premiums covered by the employer.
- Three weeks of vacation per year.
- Up to 4% employer match on 401(k) contributions.
- 11 company-recognized paid holidays.
- Parental leave.
- Educational reimbursement opportunities for company objectives, continued learning, and career development.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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