Infrastructure Engineer

Industrious Ventures; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 101,200 - 137,920; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company stock options

Comprehensive health care

Flexible vacation

Retirement savings plans

Opportunities for professional development

Job summary

Industrious Ventures is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer responsible for independently operating and managing core components of their infrastructure stack. The role demands expertise in managing production systems and experience with tools such as Terraform and AWS. Candidates should possess 3–5 years of experience and strong technical writing skills. Compensation for this position ranges from $101,200 to $137,920, reflecting the industry standards and qualifications expected.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of production infrastructure experience (SRE, DevOps, etc.).
• Demonstrated ownership of a production system end-to-end.
• On-call experience with measurable reliability outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate components of the infrastructure stack.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code.
• Run post-incident reviews for incidents you owned.
• Collaborate across infra, product engineering, and ground station operations.

Skills

Production infrastructure experience

Linux

AWS or equivalent cloud

Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

Containers and Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tooling

Python or Go

Technical writing

Job description

Location

Torrance, CA; Washington D.C.

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Engineering

Compensation

• $101,200 – $137,920

Compensation at Northwood Space is based on role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual base pay is determined on a case‑by‑case basis and may vary depending on job‑related skills, education, experience, and technical expertise. In addition to base salary, Northwood Space offers long‑term incentives such as company stock options and discretionary performance bonuses. Benefits include equity, comprehensive health care, flexible vacation, retirement savings plans, and opportunities for professional development.

About Northwood:

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company focused on connecting space and Earth. The world runs on space. Space will run on Northwood. Our global ground network ensures that missions ranging from national security, to global connectivity, to disaster response can unlock their full potential and operate every day without fail.

Infrastructure Engineer

Core individual contributor role on the Northwood Infrastructure team. Operates defined scope independently with a spike in at least one area of depth.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate one or more components of the Northwood infrastructure stack (CI/CD, app platform, cloud/IaC, networking, observability, security tooling). Take a defined scope and execute without ongoing oversight.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code. Default to Terraform, Helm, and GitOps.
• Carry on‑call for the infra stack. Handle the majority of incidents to resolution independently.
• Run post‑incident reviews for incidents you owned.
• Partner with security engineering and compliance on controls implementation in your areas - Vault policies, IAM boundaries, SIEM coverage, evidence collection.
• Treat toil as a design signal. When manual work repeats, automate it or fix the underlying system.
• Write and maintain runbooks, design docs, and component documentation. Keep them current with the system.
• Collaborate across infra, product engineering, and ground station operations on cross‑cutting work.

Basic Qualifications

• 3–5 years of production infrastructure experience (SRE, DevOps, platform, network, or systems engineering).
• Working competence across: Linux, networking fundamentals, AWS or equivalent cloud, infrastructure as code (Terraform), containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling. Not expert in all — competent enough to operate and contribute.
• Demonstrated ownership of a production system end‑to‑end: design, implementation, operation.
• On‑call experience in a production environment with measurable reliability outcomes.
• Comfortable in code (Python, Go, or similar) for automation, tooling, and integration work.
• Strong technical writing — design docs, runbooks, post‑mortems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong background in one or more of the following. We're hiring generalists with a spike, not specialists — depth in one area weighs heavily, but not at the cost of breadth across the basics.
• Networking — enterprise (FortiGate, switching), site/ground station, or core (TGW, WireGuard, BGP, IPsec)
• Security engineering — Vault, identity (Okta, IAM), SIEM operations, hardening
• Compliance partnership — implementing technical controls for CMMC, FedRAMP, NIST 800‑171, ITAR
• Observability at scale — VictoriaMetrics or Prometheus, Grafana, alerting design, log pipelines (Vector, Loki)
• App platform — EKS at scale, on‑prem k3s, ArgoCD and GitOps patterns
• CI/CD and developer experience — pipeline design, scanning and linting, release engineering
• Cloud architecture — multi‑account AWS, GovCloud, Cloudflare
• On‑prem and hardware‑adjacent ops — bringing up systems in remote or austere environments, ground stations, edge sites

Additional Information:

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Northwood is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Northwood is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Compensation Range: $101,200 - $137,920