Senior DevOps Engineer

Relativity Space; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO and sick leave policy

Parental leave

Annual learning and development stipend

Job summary

Relativity Space is seeking a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to join their team in Long Beach. In this role, you will enhance the company's automation and development platforms, ensuring seamless software deployments, maintenance, security, and scalability. Your expertise will help champion automation and best practices throughout the organization, contributing significantly to their aerospace innovations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in similar Site Reliability Engineering, Automation or DevOps role.
• Experience with Kubernetes ecosystem and GCP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support infrastructural growth across multiple sites.
• Develop roadmaps for automated software deployments.

Skills

Kubernetes ecosystem experience

Cloud services and architectures

Deployment and infrastructure-as-code frameworks

Tools

Helm

Terraform

GitLab

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

JFrog Artifactory

Job description

At Relativity Space, we have two audacious goals: to build the next great commercial launch company with Terran R and to become America's leading force in additive manufacturing innovation. Both contribute to our long-term vision of creating humanity’s industrial base on Mars, paving the way for interplanetary life to expand the possibilities of the human experience. This journey begins right here on Earth – where we design, build, and fly rockets to deliver customer payloads to orbit. Terran R, our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, fulfills the growing demand for launch capacity, thanks to our iterative approach that accelerates design, testing, and development while minimizing costs. While our groundbreaking research and development in 3D printing pushes the boundaries of large-scale additive manufacturing.

Your journey with us is more than just a job – it’s an opportunity to shape the future of aerospace technology, additive manufacturing, and the human experience alongside a community of passionate, creative individuals. Join us on this extraordinary journey, as we work together to transform our vision into reality.

About the Team:

Terrestrial Software is the central nervous system of Relativity Space, powering design, manufacturing, testing, and launch through a unified stack of enterprise applications, factory automation, and ground systems. Our goal is instant data accessibility and automated decision-making embedded in every workflow, removing friction and enabling fast, intelligent company-wide operations.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to join our growing team at our headquarters. In this role, you will be part of an SRE team supporting our company’s efforts in expanding our automation and development platform across our manufacturing teams. Your mission will be to design and implement our platform to enable seamless software deployments, maintenance, security and scalability, to champion and instill best practices and tools throughout the company and working closely with development and teams to support best practices and unlock scaled automation.

• Support infrastructural growth across multiple sites (Cloud and On-Premises)
• Ensure continued up-time on our services, processes, and infrastructure throughout the company and across all our sites
• Develop roadmaps for automated software deployments across the company
• Champion automation to reduce toil and increase development velocity
• Help define and instrument Service-Level Objectives
• Leverage Configuration Management to build and maintain consistency across services
• Apply infrastructure-as-code methodologies across configuration, orchestration, and elsewhere

About You:

• 3+ years of Similar Site Reliability Engineering, Automation or DevOps role
• Kubernetes ecosystem experience/familiarity
• Proficient in cloud services and architectures (GCP preferred)
• Knowledge of deployment and infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g., Helm, Terraform)

Nice to haves but not required:

• Advanced proficiency with Kubernetes
• Experience with deployments across cloud and on-premises environments
• Familiarity with GitLab
• Heavy experience with production monitoring, observability best practices and tools, log aggregation/analysis (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)
• Experience with jFrog Artifactory
• Knowledge of Configuration Management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, others)
• Experience with MLOps or Machine Learning Frameworks

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!To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.

Hiring Range: $140,000 — $178,000 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.