Site Reliability Engineer II
VardaIn-space Manufacturing company
El Segundo, United States$133,000 - $170,000Mid
Khosla Ventures
Founders Fund
Lux Capital
Caffeinated Capital
General Catalyst
Peter Thiel
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Build, scale, and maintain infrastructure for Varda's Earth and space systems.
- •As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll 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.
- •Key Responsibilities Deploy, maintain, and operate mission-critical applications and infrastructure supporting spacecraft and company-wide systems.
- •Build and evolve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks using tools such as Terraform.
- •Implement and operate observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) and actionable alerting.
- •Partner with software and hardware engineers to deliver highly operable, reliable, and scalable systems.
- •Respond to and resolve production incidents; perform root cause analysis and drive corrective actions.
- •Requirements Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related STEM field with 3+ years of Site Reliability Engineering experience, or 5+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, SRE, or Systems Engineering in lieu of a degree.
- •Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to automate server provisioning.
- •Experience operating Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms in production environments.
- •Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, or similar technologies.
- •Python, Bash, PowerShell (or similar) scripting experience.
Required skills
KubernetesTerraformPythonBashPrometheusGrafanaInfluxDBLinuxGitCI/CD
Nice-to-have skills
AzureAnsibleDocker
Domain expertise
aerospace
Benefits & perks
Flexible PTO policy, 12 paid holidays, 100% company-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance, FSA and employer-matched HSA options, Voluntary accident, hospital, critical illness, and pet insurance, $120/month wellness reimbursement, 12 weeks of parental leave, Family building, pregnancy, parenting and menopause benefits via Maven Clinic, Sponsored One Medical memberships, Substantial incentive equity, 401(k) retirement plan with 6% employer match, $20/pay period cell phone reimbursement, Relocation support, Fully stocked kitchen with lunch provided daily, Dinner provided twice weekly, Company and team-bonding events, Complimentary EV charging
Tech stack
KubernetesTerraformPrometheusGrafanaInfluxDBPythonBashAzureAnsibleDockerLinuxGit