Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Job Location:
El Segundo, CA - USA
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Job Summary
About Varda
Low Earth orbit is open for business. Varda is accelerating the development of commercial space infrastructure from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules.Vardas W-Series vehicles are built designed and operated by Varda in-house including the pharmaceutical processing payloads the capsules the C-PICA heat shields and the satellite buses.
From life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optics there is a world of products used on Earth today that can only be manufactured in space. Varda is accelerating innovation in the orbital economy by creating both the products and infrastructure needed so space can directly benefit life on Earth. Our mission is to expand the economic bounds of humankind.
Our team is uniquely suited to accomplishing this goal with leadership and staff comprised of veterans from SpaceX Blue Origin major pharmaceutical companies and Silicon Valley. Varda was founded in January 2021 by Will Bruey and Delian Asparouhov with significant backing from world class investors including Khosla Ventures Lux Capital Founders Fund Caffeinated Capital General Catalyst and Also Capital.
Varda is headquartered in El Segundo California where we have offices and a production facility where our vehicles equipment and materials are built integrated and tested. Varda also has offices in Washington DC and Huntsville AL.
Join Varda and work to create a bustling in-space ecosystem.
About This Role
At Varda Space Industries were pushing the boundaries of whats possible in space and materials science and were looking for bold engineers to help us get there. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer youll be critical in building scaling and maintaining the infrastructure that powers our systems on Earth in orbit and everything in between.
We are looking for an experienced engineer with deep working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized technologies. You are a hands-on operator and builder who applies first-principles thinking to both software delivery (DevOps) and production reliability (SRE) and thrives in complex mission-critical environments.
In this role you will:
- Solve challenging technical problems across a wide range of modern technologies.
- Apply a software engineering mindset to automate operations and improve system reliability scalability and resilience
- Design and build infrastructure that enables rapid development from cloud-based services to embedded software running on spacecraft.
- Shape Vardas infrastructure strategy and drive operational excellence across containerized and modernized environments.
Responsibilities
- Deploymaintain andoperatemission-critical applications and infrastructure supporting spacecraft and company-wide systems.
- Build and evolve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks using tools such as Terraform
- Implement andoperateobservability systems (metrics logging tracing) and actionable alerting.
- Build andmaintainCI/CD pipelines to enable safe repeatable and rapid deployments.
- Partner with software and hardware engineers to deliver highly operable reliable and scalable systems and pipelines ensuring they have the tools and infrastructure needed for rapid iteration.
- Identify analyze and resolve system bottlenecks and reliability risks; perform performance tuning and implement long-term stability improvements.
- Respond to and resolve production incidents; perform root cause analysis and drive corrective actions through blameless postmortems.
- Rotate through the teams on-call schedule to keep critical systems healthy and responsive.
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Occasionally travel to customer sites and other Varda locations to troubleshoot deploy or test critical infrastructure.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in computer scienceengineering or related STEM field with 5 years of Site Reliability Engineering experience or 7 years of progressive experience in DevOps SRE or Systems Engineering in lieu of a degree.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)using toolslike Terraform to automate server provisioning and configuration management
- Experience operating Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms in production environments.
- Experience with Prometheus Grafana InfluxDB or similar technologies.
- Knowledge of software-defined networking (VPC Subnets Firewalls VPNs etc.)
- Python Bash PowerShell (or similar) scripting experience
- Positive andstrong communicationskills both written and oral
Preferred SkillsandExperience
- Experience in provisioning and managing scalable Azure cloud infrastructure using native tools and best practices
- Experience implementing configuration management provisioning and workflow automation solutions via Infrastructure as Code CI/CD and GitOps (e.g. Ansible Salt ArgoCD etc).
- Strong understanding ofLinux systems and container runtimes ( Docker)
- Experience with GPU workloads or high-throughput computing.
- Hands-on experienceoperatingandoptimizingHigh Performance Computing (HPC) environments including workload schedulers such asSlurm(e.g. queue/partition design fair-share scheduling and cluster resource management).
- Experience with hybrid environments (cloud on-prem or edge systems)
- Experience debugging distributed systems at scale (network storage latency)
- Experience with databases and data modeling
Pay Range
- Site Reliability Engineer: $153000.00 - $185000.00/per year
- This role ison-sitein El Segundo CA
- Leveling and base salary are determined by job-related skills education level experience level and job performance
- You will be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of stock options and/or long-term cash awards
Benefits
Varda offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support health financial wellbeing and a highquality workplace experience. Below is an overview of what fulltime employees receive(at this time interns receive a subset of benefits):
Health & Wellness
- Flexible PTO policy 12 paid holidays
- 100% company-paid Medical Dental and Vision insurance plans for employees and dependents with FSA and employer-matched HSA options
- Voluntaryaccident hospital critical illnessandpet insurance
- $120/month wellness reimbursement for gym and fitness expenses
- 12weeks ofparental leave(with supplemental disability leavefor CAmothers)
- Family building pregnancyparentingand menopausebenefitsvia Maven Clinic
- SponsoredOne Medicalmemberships for employees and their dependents
Financial & Retirement
- Substantial incentive equityin a fully funded space start-up
- 401(k) retirement plan with 6% employer match (immediately vested)
- $20/pay period cell phone reimbursement
- Relocation supportfor new hires if needed
Workplace Experience & Perks
- Fully stocked kitchen with lunch provided daily and dinner provided twice weekly
- Company and team-bonding events happyhoursand mission-success celebrations
- Complimentary EV charging
ITAR Requirements
Varda like all employers must ensure that its employees working in the United States are lawfully authorized to work in the U.S. Additionally our employees are exposed to and have access to certain export-controlled items. Because our employees are provided access to export-controlled items our policy is to only hire U.S. persons who are permitted to have access to our technology without an export license.
US person means: U.S. citizen U.S. lawful permanent resident or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) (i.e. individual admitted to the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum).
E-Verify Statement
Varda Space Industries Inc. participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about theE-Verify program.
E-Verify Notice Right To Work Notice
Varda Space Industries is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Candidates and employees are always evaluated based on merit qualifications and performance. We will never discriminate on the basis of race color gender national origin ethnicity veteran status disability status age sexual orientation gender identity martial status mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
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About Company
Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
