Relativity Space · 1 day ago
Senior IT Systems Engineer, Storage and Infrastructure
Long Beach, California
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$137K/yr - $175K/yr
7+ years expRelativity Space is building rockets to meet the growing demand for launch capacity. The Senior IT Systems Engineer will lead the development of the company's long-term enterprise storage architecture strategy, ensuring seamless integration of infrastructure solutions and driving innovation with emerging technologies.
3D TechnologyAerospaceArtificial Intelligence (AI)Manufacturing
Responsibilities
Lead development of Relativity’s long-term enterprise storage architecture strategy to support telemetry, manufacturing, and test workloads at aerospace scale
Design and implement next-generation file, unstructured, block, and object storage systems that balance performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
Partner with IT Operations, DevOps, and Test Engineering to ensure infrastructure solutions integrate seamlessly with telemetry, simulation, and data-driven applications
Provide and enhance coverage and shared ownership of virtualization, compute, and storage infrastructure across multiple datacenters and cloud platforms
Drive innovation by evaluating and integrating emerging technologies such as NVMe-oF, software-defined storage, and single-namespace distributed systems
Empower rocket test and launch success through architectural ingenuity
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure or systems engineering with focus on, and technical ownership of, storage architecture and systems design
Deep expertise in SAN/NAS, object storage, and storage networking (iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NVMe-oF)
Proven experience managing virtualization and compute environments (e.g., VMware, KVM, Proxmox, or Hyper-V)
Strong understanding of hybrid cloud and data-tiering strategies across on-prem and public cloud (Azure, GCP, or AWS)
Demonstrated ability to architect and maintain large-scale, high-availability storage systems for mission-critical applications
Experience with backup, disaster recovery, and data protection best practices in complex enterprise environments
Preferred
Familiarity with aerospace, manufacturing, or high-throughput data environments (telemetry, CAD, or test data)
Experience implementing software-defined storage platforms such as Ceph, MinIO, or Red Hat ODF
Background in container-native storage or Kubernetes persistent storage (CSI, Rook/Ceph, OpenEBS, Portworx)
Exposure to single-namespace or global file systems and metadata-aware platforms
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity
Generous PTO and sick leave policy
Parental leave
Annual learning and development stipend
Company
Relativity Space
Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D printed rockets.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.36BKey Investors
FidelityTiger Global ManagementPlayground Global
2023-11-15Series F· $20M
2022-02-03Secondary Market
2021-06-08Series E· $650M
Leadership Team
Eric Schmidt
Chair and CEO
David Giger
VP of Engineering
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