Cloud Platform Engineer

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe— large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military.With five satellites on orbit and many more set to launch soon, the company is servicing a backlog of more than $1 billion of commercial contracts.Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent requirements for uptime, data security, network visibility, and customization.Astranis has raised over $750 million from some of the world’s best investors, from Andreessen Horowitz to Blackrock and Fidelity, and employs a team of 450 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs, builds, and operates its satellites out of its 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA.

Cloud Platform Engineer

Reliability is the cornerstone of a successful space mission. As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you’ll design infrastructure that’s as mission-critical as the satellites it supports: platforms built to run 24/7 without compromise. Your infrastructure will be the foundation for applications Mission Operators use to safely command our satellites and maintain situational awareness. Your expertise will guide our company strategy in leveraging the cloud for hosting critical applications and improving developer productivity.

This role supports both commercial and U.S. Government programs.

In this role, you will:

• Design, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms that host mission-critical applications
• Harden infrastructure for resilience and build self-healing systems with minimal downtime
• Develop observability pipelines that give insight into cluster health and cost
• Partner with teams across the engineering org to ensure their application requirements and SLAs are met
• Champion best practices in software reliability, security, and scalability across the engineering org 

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in Infrastructure and/or Site Reliability engineering
• Bachelor of Science in a related discipline (e.g. Computer Science, Information Technology)
• Experience deploying and maintaining production Kubernetes clusters
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
• Proficiency with Python or other scripting language
• Understanding of cloud spend optimization and best practices for managing cost

Bonus Areas

• Experience with on prem or baremetal Kubernetes management
• Experience with GitOps tools (e.g. FluxCD, ArgoCD)
• Familiarity with observability stacks and implementing monitoring solutions (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience with secrets management (e.g. Vault, External Secrets)
• Experience with service meshes (e.g. Istio, Nginx)

What we offer

All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits.

Base pay is a single component of Astranis's total rewards package, which may also include equity in the form of incentive stock options, high quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance benefits, flexible PTO, 401(K) retirement, and free on-site catered meals.

Astranis pay ranges are informed and defined through professional-grade salary surveys and compensation data sources. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and the level and scope of the position.

Base Salary

$130,000 - $160,000 USD

U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required

(To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3))

Our mission and our products are meant to connect the world and everyone in it, regardless of gender, race, creed, or any other distinction. We believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we encourage all people to join our team and bring their unique perspective to help make us stronger.