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Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Varda Space Industries | LAYIQ

Deploy, maintain, and operate mission-critical applications and infrastructure supporting spacecraft and company-wide systems.
Build and evolve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks using tools such as Terraform
Implement and operate observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) and actionable alerting.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, repeatable, and rapid deployments.
Partner with software and hardware engineers to deliver highly operable, reliable, and scalable systems and pipelines, ensuring they have the tools and infrastructure needed for rapid iteration.
Identify, analyze, and resolve system bottlenecks and reliability risks; perform performance tuning and implement long-term stability improvements.
Respond to and resolve production incidents; perform root cause analysis and drive corrective actions through blameless postmortems.
Rotate through the team’s on-call schedule to keep critical systems healthy and responsive.
Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
Occasionally travel to customer sites and other Varda locations to troubleshoot, deploy, or test critical infrastructure.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related STEM field with 5+ years of Site Reliability Engineering experience, or 7+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, SRE, or Systems Engineering in lieu of a degree.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to automate server provisioning and configuration management
Experience operating Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms in production environments.
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, or similar technologies.
Knowledge of software-defined networking (VPC, Subnets, Firewalls, VPNs, etc.)
Python, Bash, PowerShell (or similar) scripting experience
Positive and strong communication skills, both written and oral
Preferred Skills and Experience
Experience in provisioning and managing scalable Azure cloud infrastructure using native tools and best practices
Experience implementing configuration management, provisioning, and workflow automation solutions via Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps (e.g., Ansible, Salt, ArgoCD, etc).
Strong understanding of Linux systems and container runtimes (e.g., containerd, Docker)
Experience with GPU workloads or high-throughput computing.
Hands-on experience operating and optimizing High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, including workload schedulers such as Slurm (e.g., queue/partition design, fair-share scheduling, and cluster resource management).
Experience with hybrid environments (cloud + on-prem or edge systems)
Experience debugging distributed systems at scale (network, storage, latency)
Experience with databases and data modeling

Benefits

Consider your benefits covered for launch.
At Varda, we invest in benefits and perks that support your health, financial well-being, and life beyond work. Benefits vary by position, with packages designed specifically for our regular full-time employees and interns.
Regular Full-Time Positions: Health & Wellness
Flexible PTO policy + 12 paid holidays
100% company-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans for employees and dependents with FSA and employer-matched HSA options
Voluntary accident, hospital, critical illness, and pet insurance
$120/month wellness reimbursement for gym and fitness expenses
12 weeks of parental leave (with supplemental disability leave for CA mothers)
Family building, pregnancy, parenting and menopause benefits via Maven Clinic
Sponsored One Medical memberships for employees and their dependents
Financial & Retirement
Substantial incentive equity in a fully funded space start-up
401(k) retirement plan with 6% employer match (immediately vested)
$20/pay period cell phone reimbursement
Relocation support for new hires, if needed
Workplace Experience & Perks
Fully stocked kitchen with lunch provided daily and dinner provided twice weekly
Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and mission-success celebrations
Complimentary EV charging

Benefits for Internship Positions:

Health & Wellness
Paid observed holidays.
100% company-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans for employees and dependents with FSA and employer-matched HSA options.
$120/month wellness reimbursement for gym and fitness expenses.
Sponsored One Medical memberships for employees and their dependents.
Financial
$20/pay period cell phone reimbursement.
Up to $4,000 gross up in relocation support, if eligible
Up to $850 commute credit through Lyft or car rental reimbursement, if eligible.
Workplace Experience & Perks
Fully stocked kitchen with lunch provided daily and dinner provided twice weekly
Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and mission-success celebrations
Complimentary EV charging
ITAR Requirements
Varda, like all employers, must ensure that its employees working in the United States are lawfully authorized to work in the U.S. Additionally, our employees are exposed to and have access to certain export-controlled items. Because our employees are provided access to export-controlled items, our policy is to only hire “U.S. persons” who are permitted to have access to our technology without an export license.
“US person” means: U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident, or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) (i.e., individual admitted to the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum).
E-Verify Statement
Varda Space Industries, Inc. participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.
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Varda Space Industries is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Candidates and employees are always evaluated based on merit, qualifications, and performance. We will never discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, martial status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.

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