Principal Infrastructure Engineer
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
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$ 142000 - 200000
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Job Description
At Vast our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. We are building artificial gravity space stations allowing long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven-1 scheduled to be the worlds first commercial space station when it launches into low earth orbit in May 2026. Our team is all-in committed to executing our mission safely and on you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity come join us.
As a Principal Infrastructure Engineeryou will have the opportunity to build a modern IT infrastructure for Vast Mission Ops from the ground up. We build our systems cloud-first with an emphasis on researching and deploying the latest technologies and paradigms. You will identify opportunities to improve and expand our IT infrastructure to enhance speed security and ease of use. You will have the opportunity to plan build test deliver and maintain projects from start to finish. Likewise you will prioritize establishing our IT function to be an ally to enhance employee productivity while balancing security.
This will be a full-time exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
Responsibilities
- Support the provisioning and deployment of Kubernetes clusters on bare metal servers.
- Help build and maintain tooling for bare metal provisioning including DHCP DNS PXE/iPXE/HTTPBoot and Linux Machine Configuration.
- Write and maintain scripts and services (Go Python Bash) to automate deployment workflows across new and existing sites.
- Partner with data center operations and networking teams to ensure hardware is correctly configured connected and ready for use.
- Manage infrastructure configuration using tools like Git Flux and Terraform.
- Contribute to system documentation runbooks and tooling that makes our infrastructure reliable and repeatable.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience with Linux / Kubernetes systems and comfort working in a terminal.
- Familiar with Locus Linux
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and Git-based workflows (e.g. Terraform Flux Kustomize).
- Ability to write and maintain basic tooling in Go Python or Bash.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals (IPAM VLANs DHCP DNS).
- Working knowledge of storage concepts (block vs object NFS RAID etc.).
- Strong sense of ownership and a willingness to dive into hardware firmware or low-level provisioning issues.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience provisioning physical machines in a data center environment.
- Exposure to Talos Linux Kubernetes bootstrapping or Kubernetes platform engineering.
- Previous collaboration with facilities hardware or network teams in an operational role.
Pay Range
- Senior Infrastructure Engineer: $142000 - $200000
- Staff Infrastructure Engineer: $164000 - $230000
- Principal Infrastructure Engineer: $188100 - $270600
Salary Range: California
$142000 - $270600 USD
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls and therefore must either be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens U.S. nationals lawful permanent residents (green card holders) and asylees and refugees with such status granted not pending.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full Time
