Senior IT Engineer, Muon Space
$165-184k
+ equity
More information about location
5 days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
End-to-end space systems provider
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End-to-end space systems provider
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$165-184k
+ equity
More information about location
5 days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make Earth Intelligence accessible to help protect our planet's people, climate and ecosystem.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with Active Directory is a plus
- 5+ years of IT experience
- Hands-on experience with Okta and identity management
- Experience administering Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft 365
- Experience with Google Workspace administration
- Experience managing identity and access across AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and access governance, including access requests and access reviews
- Proactive, reliable, and able to work with minimal supervision
Desirable
- Experience supporting U.S. Government programs
- Experience with CUI data handling
- Experience with EAR/ITAR-controlled data handling
- Active or eligible for a U.S. security clearance
What the job involves
- Muon seeks a Senior IT Engineer to join our IT team. The ideal candidate is a seasoned identity and access management (IAM) professional with a strong background in Okta
- In this role you will own authentication and authorization across the organization—spanning SaaS applications, cloud environments, on-premises infrastructure, and user endpoints—while architecting scalable, secure identity solutions that keep pace with our rapidly growing company
- You will focus on identity and access management, including access request workflows and access review systems, and help design authorization models that enforce our access restrictions for CUI, EAR, and ITAR data
- Own authentication across the organization, including SaaS applications, cloud environments, on-premises infrastructure, and user endpoints
- Architect and continuously evolve our Okta environment to fit our needs while retaining the flexibility required by a fast-growing company
- Design authorization models for each system that grant access on a least-privilege, as-needed basis
- Build and maintain access request workflows and access review systems to streamline provisioning and periodic access certifications
- Define and enforce access restrictions that protect CUI, EAR, and ITAR-controlled data
- Administer and integrate identity across Okta, Active Directory, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365
- Manage identity and access across AWS, GCP, and Azure cloud platforms
- Partner with IT, Security, and business teams to align identity and access management with compliance and operational requirements
Our take
Developing and operating satellites represents a significant challenge. Many organizations need accurate, space-based data but lack the resources or expertise to build their own spacecraft or manage the necessary ground systems and data processing.
To tackle this issue, Muon Space provides a service called Muon Halo. This allows customers to access satellite data without having to handle the technical details of satellite construction or operation. Muon offers end-to-end solutions, including building and launching satellites, managing operations, and processing collected data.
Muon has contracts with major customers like the US Air Force and US Space Force. It is supported by considerable funding that is being invested into scaling operations across satellite production, the deployment of its automated constellation operations platform, and expansion of its global ground station network.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2025
$44.5m
SERIES B
Aug 2024
$56.7m
SERIES B
Total funding: $146.2m
Company benefits
- 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for employees; 50% coverage for dependents (Concierge Medical offered through One Medical where available)
- Parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
- Generous time off policy
- 401(k) plan through Betterment and equity management through Carta
- Fully stocked kitchen at our HQ and we cater lunch 3 days per week
- Dog-friendly office
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Pascal Stang
(CTO & Co-founder)Previously a Director of the Autonomous Vehicle Division at Lyft. Prior to that, they were a Flight Vehicle Area Tech Lead at Google and a Satellite Systems Architect at Terra Bella.
Dan McCleese
(Chief Scientist & Co-founder)Previously worked at NASA for over 23 years in a number of roles including Mars Climate Sounder/MRO, Principal Investigator and Chief Scientist. They also worked at Calltech as a Climate Modelling Alliance Project Manager.
Paul Day
(VP of Spacecraft Production & Co-founder)Previously the CPO at Loft Orbital. They also worked as an Engineering Program Manager at Apple and as a Technical Program Manager at Google.
Reuben Rohrschneider
(Chief Mission Architect & Co-founder)Graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a PhD in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering. Previously worked at Ball Aerospace for over 14 years as a Mission Systems Engineer then Principal Mission Systems and Architect Engineer.
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