DevOps Engineer, Astranis
$130-160k
+ Equity
More information about location
5 days a week in office
Next generation satellite broadband service
Be an early applicant
Next generation satellite broadband service
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-160k
+ Equity
More information about location
5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give the 4 billion people without access to internet the ability to get online.
Role
Who you are
- You’re excited by the idea of supporting spacecraft with infrastructure that’s as mission-critical as the satellites themselves
- 2+ years experience in Infrastructure and DevOps engineering
- Bachelor of Science in a related discipline (e.g. Computer Science, Information Technology)
- Proficiency with Python or other scripting language
- Experience with scaling build systems such as, but not limited to: Bazel, CMake, or Pants
- Strong Experience with Linux
- Experience working with CI tools such as Gitlab, Github, Jenkins, Tekton or others
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Highly motivated, self-starting, and able to perform duties autonomously without much supervision
- Comfortable with working onsite at our San Francisco HQ 5 days a week and commit to 55 hours per week
Desirable
- Bazel build system
- Code coverage reporting
- AI tooling for developers
- Remote development environments
- Flaky test management and infrastructure
What the job involves
- As a DevOps engineer, you will be an early contributor to the growing infrastructure team to support a rapidly expanding fleet of satellites
- Speed and reliability aren’t luxuries here; they’re lifelines. When a satellite is orbiting thousands of miles above Earth, minutes matter
- Our developers need to iterate and deploy rapidly to fix mission-critical issues and push improvements that keep spacecraft healthy and missions on track
- You’ll be the one making sure our CI pipelines aren’t just efficient, but blazing fast, so our engineers can respond to the unexpected in real time
- You’ll own every aspect of the development workflow including AI assistant tools, language upgrades, build systems, pre-commit checks, and emerging projects to help unlock developer velocity
- This role supports both commercial and U.S. Government programs
- You'll maintain and streamline a CI pipeline integrating with a mix of real and simulated hardware
- Introduce and optimize build tools and workflows to accelerate development
- Automate release, deployment, and monitoring tooling for development and production systems
- Implement and own the proliferation of metrics and performance tracking in development, CI, production, and mission contexts
- Lead initiatives that improve developer productivity and developer experience
Our take
Internet access is swiftly becoming a core feature of modern life across the world - as of 2021, nearly 60% of the global population were active internet users, and the number is only set to climb. Looking to facilitate and benefit from this are Astranis, who have developed advanced small-form factor satellite technology (similar to SpaceX) to improve satellite internet access across the world.
This has proven an astronomically successful proposition with an overwhelming demand from global customers, including a partnership to triple data speeds across the state of Alaska. This is no surprise, as provision of basic internet capabilities is in the interests of industry, governments, and the population at large.
With a valuation of $1.6 billion, the company's April 2023 injection of capital is set to ensure the company meets its production demands. Its satellite method is already groundbreaking and the company's first one launched in 2023. Two more launches are scheduled for 2024.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2024
$200m
SERIES D
Apr 2023
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $603.7m
Company benefits
- An equity stake in the company
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited vacation days
- Healthy, delicious, free lunch catered in every day
- Complementary OneMedical membership
- Great office chairs, stand-up desks, and a machine shop
- Reimbursement to spend on commuting from outside SF
- Generous, fully-paid parental leave
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Gedmark
(CEO)John co-founded the Roosevelt Institute think tank in 2004 before working as Director of Flight Operations at X Prize Foundation for 2 years. He co-founded Commercial Spaceflight Federation in 2007, before co-founding Astranis in 2015, serving as CEO.
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