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Northwood · 2 hours ago

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Torrance, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Northwood is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to architect and lead the monitoring and reliability systems that keep satellites connected to Earth. This high-impact leadership role involves designing and building observability infrastructure for space communications systems while mentoring junior engineers and establishing SRE practices across the organization.

Satellite Communication

Diversity & Inclusion

Responsibilities

Architect and maintain enterprise observability stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Vector, VictoriaMetrics) monitoring ground stations, satellite communications, and multi-region AWS infrastructure

Design SRE practices, error budgets, and SLO/SLI frameworks for mission-critical satellite systems with 99.9%+ uptime requirements

Build advanced AWS infrastructure with Terraform, implementing multi-region reliability, automated scaling, and disaster recovery for ground station operations

Lead CI/CD pipeline architecture using GitLab and ArgoCD with advanced deployment strategies for mission-critical software releases

Mentor junior engineers and establish reliability standards across the growing engineering organization

Design comprehensive Kubernetes deployments with Helm, focusing on high availability and zero-downtime operations

Lead incident response, conduct post-mortems, and drive systematic reliability improvements

Qualification

KubernetesAWSTerraformCI/CDSRE principlesDockerObservability toolsLinux administrationNetworking expertiseSoft skills

Required

5-8 years of production infrastructure and SRE experience with demonstrated leadership in reliability improvements and team mentorship

Expert-level experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration in large-scale production environments

Strong background in infrastructure as code (Terraform) and advanced CI/CD practices with experience mentoring others on these technologies

Advanced AWS experience including multi-region architectures, networking, security, and cost optimization, with demonstrated ability to architect complex cloud solutions

Proven track record of leading technical projects from conception to production in fast-moving, high-growth environments

Deep understanding of SRE principles, error budgets, SLOs/SLIs, and experience implementing reliability frameworks across engineering organizations

Preferred

Production experience architecting and scaling observability tools (Vector, Loki, Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics) in high-throughput environments

Advanced experience with HashiCorp Vault, Okta, and enterprise identity/secrets management systems including policy design and implementation

Previous experience scaling infrastructure and leading technical teams at high-growth companies (startup to 500+ employees)

AWS Professional certification or equivalent demonstrated expertise with advanced cloud networking, security, and compliance frameworks

Strong Linux system administration and networking expertise with experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems

Background in aerospace, telecommunications, defense contracting, or other mission-critical, highly regulated industries

Experience with ITAR, NIST 800-171, or other defense/aerospace compliance requirements

Company

Northwood

Northwood was founded by Bridgit Mendler, Griffin Cleverly, and Shaurya Luthra with the mission to expand access to space by transforming satellite backhaul infrastructure.

Founded in 2023

Torrance, California, USA

11-50 employees