Senior Linux Systems Engineer

Relativity; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Generous PTO

Sick leave

Parental leave

Learning stipend

Job summary

Relativity Space is seeking an experienced Linux systems administrator to own fleet health and provisioning across engineering environments. You will manage authentication, services, storage, performance, and remote connectivity for a mixed Linux fleet, from laptops to servers, while keeping infrastructure-as-code practices current and secure.

You will join our IT team, supporting production and flight operations, with opportunities to shape tooling, automation, and security in a rapidly growing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Linux systems administration in production environments.
• Configuration management experience in an infrastructure-as-code model with peer review.
• Medium-to-advanced troubleshooting across services, networking, storage, auth, and performance.
• Experience with enterprise directory services integration, credential and key management, and scripting.
• Ability to act as escalation point for technical teams and manage competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary escalation point for Linux issues across engineering, from routine to complex.
• Troubleshoot authentication, services, storage, performance, and remote connectivity.
• Provision Linux hosts end-to-end—from laptops to rack-mounted servers and lab systems.
• Own access and authentication operations and recurring fleet maintenance (patching, health checks, backups).
• Maintain the configuration management codebase with small, peer-reviewed changes.

Skills

Linux systems administration

Fleet health management

Configuration management

Troubleshooting

Enterprise directory services

Scripting

Virtualization

Containerization

CI/CD

Observability

Security hardening

Tools

Containerization

CI/CD tooling

Virtualization

Observability tools

Kernel/Driver debugging

Job description

Relativity Space is seeking an experienced Linux systems administrator to own fleet health and provisioning across engineering environments. You will manage authentication, services, storage, performance, and remote connectivity for a mixed Linux fleet, from laptops to servers, while keeping infrastructure-as-code practices current and secure.

You will join our IT team, supporting production and flight operations, with opportunities to shape tooling, automation, and security in a rapidly growing