Site Reliability Engineer, Epsilon3
$120-175k
+ Stock options
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Operating system for spacecraft and complex operations
Open for applications
Operating system for spacecraft and complex operations
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$120-175k
+ Stock options
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Modernize space missions and complex engineering and testing by building the industry standard of operational software.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who is interested in space exploration and passionate about building scalable, reliable, and secure software
- The ideal candidate has years of experience using Kubernetes (K8s) and is proficient in JavaScript
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of combined experience in site reliability and production software engineering
- Proficiency with Kubernetes (K8s) and JavaScript (JS) is required for this role
- Strong foundation in computer science concepts (algorithms, data structures, object-oriented programming, design, testing, etc.)
- Self-starter and able to navigate ambiguity and assess rapidly evolving priorities
- Strong team player with great communication skills and collaborative work ethic
- Love of learning (technical and otherwise)
- Experience in fast-growing tech startups is a plus
- Experience with Lean Startup methodologies (agile software development) is a plus
- US Citizenship (future security clearance may be required)
- Must be located in the United States
What the job involves
- You will be responsible for building and supporting complex infrastructure and deployment scenarios. We are currently using technologies such as React.JS, Node, Postgres, AWS GovCloud, Docker, and K8s, and our stack will evolve over time as we scale our solutions and approach
- Some of the technical challenges we’re undertaking:
- Real-time synchronization of data and user interfaces across earth and space
- Visualization of many complex data fields
- Integration of multiple high-bandwidth data streams for real-time processing and display
- Multiple deployment environments including cloud and on-premises
- Mission-critical security and reliability requirements
- Supporting complex workflows and detailed tracking while also maintaining simplicity and delightfulness of user experience
- Support and contribute to the entire lifecycle of our software, from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement
- Support our services in production and before they go live through system design, security considerations, capacity planning, and launch preparedness
- Build processes and systems to continuously improve system reliability and performance
- Build processes and systems to continuously improve the productivity of the rest of the development team
- Scale systems sustainably through automation and continuous improvement in reliability and velocity
- Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems
- Contribute to the design, build, test, and release of our web-based operational dashboards, electronic procedure tools, and suite of specialized software solutions to support various missions
- Join and actively participate in customer discovery calls and technical demonstrations
- Analyze and enhance the security, efficiency, stability, and scalability of our software systems
- Support software QA and user testing
- Support and facilitate security reviews and audits of our systems by customers and third parties
- Facilitate compliance with cybersecurity certifications and contribute to improvements in our security policies and processes
- Assess third-party and open source software and develop integrations
- Contribute to the growth and refinement of our engineering culture, processes, and tools
Our take
The space industry has been re-energized in the previous couple of decades by competition amongst commercial companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic. That has meant an evolving set of intricate tools in an already complex project context.
In response, Epsilon3’s founders created the toolkit they never had and developed the operating system for launch operations, that gives everyone in the team a platform to collaborate and communicate from test and design through major operations.
While near competitors First Resonance and Prewitt Ridge have applications in aerospace and manufacturing broadly, Epsilon3 is laser-focused on space and proving out that the software works in the highest stakes and most complex environments.
The goal for Epsilon3 will be expanding its client portfolio from companies like Stoke Space and other new rocket entrants to winning custom from the likes of SpaceX. Its Series A funding from 2022 will go some way to helping the company expand.
Kirsty
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
69% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2022
$15m
SERIES A
Jan 2022
$2.8m
SEED
Total funding: $18m
Company HQ
Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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Leadership
Laura Crabtree
(CEO)Senior leader at SpaceX for over a decade, they were on console for the first Dragon mission in 2010 and was a leader of SpaceX’s missions operations. Laura's career began at Northrop Grumman working on various programs for DARPA and other DoD customers. Holds a Bachelor’s in Astronautical Engineering and a Master’s in Systems Architecture, both from the University of Southern California.
Aaron Sullivan
(Chief Engineer)Holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University. Prior to Epsilon3, Aaron worked as a consultant with numerous clients to quickly build software and deliver value for organisations like the World Bank. Also former employee at Google.
Max Mednik
(COO)Has co-founded four startups (three of which still exist today) spanning financial technology, legal technology, and aerospace and defense. Worked at Google as a senior software engineer and tech lead on the Chrome OS and Machine Intelligence teams. Holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Master of Science in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and a Master of Business Administration from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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