DevOps Engineer

• Develop and support CI/CD pipelines, automating the build, test, and release of frontend and backend applications for the Mission Software Team.
• Collaborate with Flight Software teams to streamline release management and integrated testing between physical and simulated flight assets and the supporting mission software.
• Design and help operate a highly secure and stable cloud environment to support in-flight missions with the suite of mission software services. Assist in the initial design of this environment as well as the migration of deployed services from development environments to the mission environment.
• Drive the operational requirements and procedures for mission software services and take ownership of reliability engineering; ensure the proper tooling is in place for monitoring and maintaining continuous uptime.
• Regularly exercise our services capabilities by orchestrating chaos testing, load testing, and automated regression testing.
• Build and expand on an internal developer portal that includes runbooks, incident response management, centralized API registry, service health metrics, and more.
• Work cross-functionally with other teams at Vast including InfoSec and IT.
• Help build the technical and cultural groundwork for a DevOps organization at Vast.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in application development with Python, Go, or Javascript/Typescript.
• Experience maintaining large-scale data systems (measured in TB and kHz) with strict SLAs and high criticality.
• Extensive experience developing and managing solutions in the cloud using Terraform.
• Deep experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes; should be able to confidently administer, configure, and operate a multi-tenant Kubernetes cluster.
• Comprehensive understanding of networking concepts, both fundamental (OSI Model, linux networking appliances, etc.) as well as cloud (VPC’s, transit gateways, proper subnetting and routing, etc.).
• Ability to effectively triage priorities, communicate initiatives and timelines, and promote DevOps skills and culture within a fast-paced organization.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Expertise in building and testing distributed Golang applications.
• Expertise in optimally configuring and maintaining Kafka clusters.
• Expertise in setting strategy for incident response and remediation.
• Experience driving security and code quality standards through automated scanners applied to the codebase (SAST + SCA).
• Experience with self-hosted observability instrumentation in distributed systems (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.).

Additional Requirements:

• Willingness to work occasional evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones.

Base salary will vary depending on job-related knowledge, education, skills, experience, business needs, and market demand. Salary is just one component of our comprehensive compensation package. Full-time employees also receive company equity, as well as access to a full suite of compelling benefits and perks, including: medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, generous paid time off; up to 20+ days of vacation for exempt staff and up to 10+ days of vacation for non-exempt staff with the ability to cash-out unused vacation annually, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health, and other discounts and perks. We also take pride in offering exceptional food perks, with snacks, drip coffee & onsite barista, cold drinks, and dinner meals remaining free of charge, and lunch subsidized as part of Vast’s ongoing commitment to providing high-quality meals for employees.

Vast is developing next-generation space stations and space infrastructure using an incremental, hardware-rich, and low-cost approach. Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station to ensure a continuous human presence in space for America and its allies, enabling advanced microgravity research and manufacturing, and unlocking a new space economy for government, corporate, and private customers. Haven Demo’s 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft. Next, Haven-1 is expected to become the world’s first commercial space station when it launches in 2027, followed by additional Haven modules. Additionally, the company recently announced Vast Satellite, a high-power satellite product line leveraging its space station components and the heritage of Haven Demo.

Headquartered in Long Beach, California, and with more than 1,000 employees and over a billion dollars in private capital, Vast has built the facilities required to manufacture and operate America’s next space station. The company plans to develop future habitats and systems for the Moon and Mars, dedicated space stations for government partners, and other crewed systems that will unlock the expanding long-term space economy.