Platform Engineer, Turion Space
$115-140k
Office located in Irvine, CA
Satellite manufacturer & operator
Open for applications
Satellite manufacturer & operator
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$115-140k
Office located in Irvine, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To advance space sustainability, bridge national security capability gaps, and realign incentives across the value chain in satellite manufacturing.
Role
Who you are
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Personnel Security Clearance (PCL)
- 3+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, or platform engineering
- Strong understanding of infrastructure-agnostic design principles and containerization
- Experience with infrastructure as code (AWS CDK, Terraform, or similar)
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Basic understanding of API design and development
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
- Experience with at least one programming language (Python, TypeScript, or Go)
- Strong problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn
- Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively
- Basic understanding of security best practices in cloud environments
- Physical ability to occasionally work with server equipment (lifting up to 50 pounds, rack mounting)
- This position may include access to technology and/or software source code that is subject to U.S. export controls. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
Desirable
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Experience building portable, cloud-agnostic solutions
- Experience building internal tools or platforms for developer use
- Knowledge of multiple cloud providers and their differences
- Familiarity with platform engineering concepts and internal developer platforms
- Experience with abstraction patterns and API design
- Familiarity with infrastructure portability challenges and solutions
- Experience with service mesh technologies and microservices architectures
- Understanding of developer experience (DX) principles
- Familiarity with GitOps practices and tools
- Experience with cross-cloud observability platforms and practices
- Eagerness to learn and contribute to open-source projects
What the job involves
- Turion Space is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our platform engineering team.
- While our current infrastructure primarily uses AWS, we're building our platform and products with infrastructure agnosticism in mind - whether cloud or on-premises.
- This role offers an opportunity to both support our existing AWS infrastructure while designing and implementing portable solutions that could run anywhere.
- While our long-term focus is on building internal developer platforms and self-service tools, we currently maintain a hands-on role in supporting our development teams with their DevOps needs.
- This dual responsibility offers an excellent opportunity to both build platform capabilities while gaining practical experience with the challenges we're aiming to solve
- Platform Development:
- Help design and implement infrastructure-agnostic internal developer platforms and self-service tools
- Assist in creating abstraction layers and interfaces for infrastructure portability
- Contribute to building and maintaining reusable infrastructure components and templates
- Support the development of platform APIs and tools
- Help implement cloud-agnostic observability and monitoring solutions
- Assist in creating standardized deployment patterns and workflows
- Support and improve our container orchestration platform
- Contribute to platform documentation and training materials
- Collaborate with development teams to understand their needs
- Immediate Impact:
- Support development teams with their current CI/CD and deployment needs in AWS
- Manage and maintain existing AWS infrastructure and deployment pipelines
- Assist with immediate production issues and deployments
- Help teams design cloud-agnostic solutions while working within current AWS constraints
- Help teams with their cloud infrastructure and containerization needs
- Participate in on-call rotations for both platform and production support
Application process
- Application Deadline: December 29, 2024
Our take
To empower critical space missions, Turion Space builds and operates DROID Satellites that its clients can control through the company's operating system (known as Starfire).
The idea behind Turion's approach is to simplify satellite operations by making them non-configurable, instead handling day-to-day operations itself. In this way, the company helps its clients to eliminate friction between platform and bus suppliers, which can hinder the potential of missions.
To support the expansion of its operations, which include non-earth imaging, space debris removal and satellite servicing, the company has raised strategic funding. This positions it well to move towards its goal of producing 45 satellites annually by 2027.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Dec 2022
$5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $5m
Company HQ
Irvine Spectrum Center, Irvine, CA
Leadership
Ryan Westerdahl
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously spent over 8 years at SpaceX, initially as a Propulsion Development Engineering Intern before becoming a Dynamics Engineer.
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