Site Reliability Engineer

Relativity Space; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

PTO and sick leave

Parental leave

Learning stipend

Job summary

Relativity Space is seeking a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to join our Terrestrial Software team at HQ. You will design and implement scalable deployment platforms, champion best practices, and support continued automation across manufacturing teams.

Applicants should have 3+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Kubernetes experience, and proficiency with cloud services (GCP preferred) and IaC tools like Terraform and Helm. Familiarity with monitoring stacks and CI tooling is a plus.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in SRE/DevOps or similar role.
• Kubernetes ecosystem experience.
• Proficiency with cloud services and architectures (GCP preferred).
• Knowledge of deployment and IaC frameworks (Helm, Terraform).
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools and CI tooling is a plus.
• Familiarity with GitLab and infrastructure automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Support infrastructural growth across multiple sites (Cloud and On-Premises).
• Ensure continued up-time on services, processes, and infrastructure.
• 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 maintain consistency across services.
• Apply infrastructure-as-code across configuration, orchestration, and more.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Kubernetes

Cloud (GCP)

IaC (Terraform, Helm)

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitLab

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Artifactory

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the 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. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

About the Team:

Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and the universe beyond our planet. With decades of experience scaling world-class technology organisations like Google, CEO Eric Schmidt is guiding Relativity into its next phase: advancing Terran R toward launch and building the foundation for long-term impact.

The Terrestrial Software team is building the foundation for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform. Their mission is to automate and streamline workflows across the entire lifecycle of Terran R, from raw material intake to launch operations and eventually manufacturing on Mars. Today, that means partnering directly with teams across design, materials, manufacturing, and test and launch to design, implement, and deploy end user enterprise-wide applications, industrial automation, data analytics infrastructure, and next-generation AI to solve real problems and accelerate progress. Long term, the team is laying the groundwork for a modular, scalable software platform that can power highly autonomous operations on Earth and beyond. This is a team for builders and thinkers who thrive on cross‑functional impact and want to shape the digital backbone of our future in space.

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

Hiring Range:

$140,000 — $214,000 USD

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.

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.

If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at [e-mail].