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Varda Space Industries · 6 hours ago

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

El Segundo, California, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Varda is a company focused on developing commercial space infrastructure, aiming to create products and systems that benefit life on Earth. As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will set the technical vision for reliability across various platforms and mentor senior engineers to ensure mission readiness and operational excellence.

AerospaceManufacturingProduct Design

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Lead and contribute hands-on to the deployment, maintenance, and operations of mission-critical applications and infrastructure supporting spacecraft, ground systems, and company-wide platforms

Design, execute, and manage highly scalable, reliable, and operable software and infrastructure platforms, applying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to drive automation, consistency, and repeatability across Kubernetes environments

Collaborate closely with software and hardware teams to align reliability best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and compliance with their workflows, enabling faster, more secure deployments for mission-critical systems

Anticipate and address reliability risks, capacity challenges, and performance bottlenecks; develop long-term strategies in partnership with leadership

Rotate through the team’s on-call schedule to keep critical systems healthy and responsive

Occasionally travel to customer sites and other Varda locations to troubleshoot, deploy, or test critical infrastructure

Qualification

Site Reliability EngineeringKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeSystems ArchitecturePythonAzure Cloud InfrastructureObservability StacksCI/CD SystemsCommunication SkillsTeam Leadership

Required

10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering, including leadership of large-scale, mission-critical systems

Experience leading technical direction and architecture for large-scale systems

Hands-on experience with observability stacks and telemetry pipelines—including metrics collection, alerting, and dashboards—for Linux systems and Kubernetes workloads (e.g., Prometheus and Grafana)

Strong background in systems architecture and software-defined networking (VPC, subnets, firewalls, VPNs, etc.)

Proficiency in automation and scripting with Python, Bash, or similar languages

Positive and strong communication skills, both written and oral