Cybersecurity Engineer II New Long Beach, California, United States

Relativity Space, Inc.; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Paid time off

Parental leave

Learning stipend

Job summary

Relativity Space seeks an IT Security professional to protect sensitive data, automate security workflows, and harden cloud IAM across platforms. You’ll implement secure development practices, drive compliance with NIST/CMMC, and partner with IAM, DLP, AppSec, and GRC teams.

2–4 years of hands-on experience recommended. You’ll work across propulsion, manufacturing, software, and corporate functions to reduce risk and enable fast, secure innovation on Terran R.

Qualifications

• Hands-on cybersecurity/IT role with problem-solving focus.
• Experience with scripting and automation across systems.
• Familiar with IAM, DLP, cloud, AppSec, and GRC.

Responsibilities

• Protect data behind rockets and build scalable fixes.
• Build and automate security tooling and AI-assisted workflows to reduce repetitive tasks.
• Harden identity and access with Entra ID, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Secure development by integrating security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate compliance with frameworks like NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously improve security.

Skills

Python

Automation

AI tooling

Identity and access management

Cloud security

Tools

Microsoft Entra ID

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. OurTerran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launchcapacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock newopportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyondthe known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Nowis a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, andthe culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The mostmeaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

About the Team:

The IT team is responsible for the full scope of computing infrastructure, end-user systems, servers, virtualization, cloud, networking, software services, telecommunications, and information security. You’ll support every function across the company, from the production floor to flight operations, enabling Relativity’s world-class team to design, build, and launch rockets. The team balances near-term execution with long-term vision, developing scalable solutions and processes to enable the company's growth. The evolving complexity of our IT environment offers opportunities to stretch and sharpen problem solving and hands-on technical skills. We invest in our people,encouraging ownership, cross-training, and advancement, so our team can grow as fast and ambitiously as thecompany itself.

About the Role:

• You’ll protect the people and technical data behind our rockets. That means finding what can be better and building fixes that scale. The work covers a few areas:
• Build and automate across the security stack. Build tools and AI-assisted workflows that take over the repetitive stuff: investigations, enrichment, access reviews, reporting. That way the team spends its time on real risk
• Strengthen identity and access. Work with our IAM folks to harden Microsoft Entra ID, Azure, and Google Cloud. Hunt down privilege creep, exposed credentials, and misconfigurations. Learn and apply Conditional Access, least privilege, and privileged access best practices
• Protect sensitive data. Help build DLP controls across endpoints, cloud services, and collaboration tools that keep IP and CUI safe while enabling R&D
• Enable secure development. Partner with AppSec and infrastructure to build security into CI/CD pipelines: secrets detection, dependency scanning, vulnerability checks. Ship self-service guardrails so the secure path is the easy path
• Automate compliance. Turn requirements like CMMC Level 2 and NIST SP 800-171 into code. Collect evidence automatically and check controls continuously
• Spot and fix process gaps. You’ll have room to find what’s slow or broken, pitch a fix, and ship it. Along the way you’ll work with experts across every area, learn from them, and help raise the whole team's game

About You:

• 2-4 years of hands-on work in cybersecurity, IT, cloud, or a related technical field, in roles where you built things and solved problems, not just working in a queue
• Curious and self-starting. You don't wait for perfect instructions. You ask questions, dig in, test ideas, and learn by doing
• Comfortable with scripting, automation, and AI. You can write Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar to connect systems through APIs and automate repetitive work. You use AI coding assistants and LLMs to move faster, learn new tools, and prototype ideas. You also understand what they give you and know when to double check it. You don't need to be a software engineer or an ML specialist. You just need to be resourceful and excited to use these tools to work smarter
• Cross-functional. You like working across IAM, DLP, cloud, AppSec, and GRC, partnering with specialists, and carrying ideas from one area into the next
• Solid security basics. You have a good grasp of identity and access, authentication and authorization, networking, common attack techniques, and investigating security events

Nice to haves but not required:

• Certifications
• Security Clearance
• Aerospace Experience
• Startup Experience

At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors. Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more!

$111,000 - $167,000 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited submission - via email, our website, social media, or directly to an employee - will be deemed the property of Relativity Space, and no fee will be owed absent a current, fully executed agreement with Talent Acquisition that specifically authorizes submissions for the applicable role.