Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Are you passionate about shaping the future of humanity's presence in space? Lunar Outpost, an industry leader in space robotics and planetary vehicles, invites you to join our team! Lunar Outpost is dedicated to creating a permanent presence in space, while also driving positive impacts here on Earth. Currently, we are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to contribute to our mission in a dynamic startup environment. The main responsibilities of this role include managing Stargate deployments in production, ensuring high availability and uptime, executing reliable releases, and driving operational excellence through comprehensive monitoring, metrics, and infrastructure management. Stargate is a next-generation Command and Control (C2) platform—the ground software that enables and empowers all Lunar Outpost missions, including the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) program. As mission-agnostic software used by all operators in mission control, Stargate's reliability and uptime are critical to mission success.

Take the #NextLeap with Lunar Outpost and work on the Pegasus LTV, which will carry NASA astronauts farther than they've ever been before on the lunar surface!

Working Conditions / Schedule: This position is required to be onsite Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Where applicable, employees may work remotely on Wednesdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Additional hours may be required based on business needs.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain Kubernetes operators and controllers in Go to automate deployment, configuration, scaling, and lifecycle management of Stargate services

Own and manage Stargate production releases and deployment pipelines using GitOps practices

Drive operational excellence initiatives including metrics collection, log aggregation, uptime monitoring, KPI tracking, and SIM Integration

Maintain and achieve 99.99% (four nines) to 99.999% (five nines) uptime SLAs

Design, develop, and maintain Helm charts for Stargate and related infrastructure components

Implement and manage progressive deployment strategies including canary deployments and blue-green deployments

Oversee critical Kubernetes infrastructure including volume management, DNS configuration, load balancer provisioning, and secret monitoring/management

Manage and optimize Kubernetes deployments and related AWS services

Implement and maintain observability stack using OpenTelemetry for comprehensive monitoring and alerting

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related discipline

Kubernetes administration experience with elevated cluster access in production environments

• •Strong software development experience in one or more
• programming languages (C++, Go, Node , Python, etc.)

Strong proficiency writing and maintaining Helm charts for complex, multi-component applications

Hands-on experience implementing canary deployments, blue-green deployments, and other progressive delivery patterns

Deep knowledge of Kubernetes infrastructure management: persistent volumes, DNS/networking, load balancers, and secrets management

Production experience with GitOps workflows and Flux CD

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience developing Go-based Kubernetes operators and controllers

Experience with AWS cloud services, particularly EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), Secrets Manager, VPC networking, IAM, and AWS Load Balancers

Experience with Karpenter for Kubernetes node autoscaling and cluster optimization

Experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation and observability platforms

Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, or CKS)

Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)

Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CDK)

Experience implementing SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

Compensation & Benefits: Compensation level and base salary are competitively structured and thoughtfully determined based on factors such as relevant skills, experience, education, and the scope of the role.

Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, dental, and vision benefits, with 70% of premiums covered by the employer

Paid time off: Three (3) weeks per year of vacation

Retirement plan: Up to 4% employer match on 401(k) contributions

Paid holidays: 11 company-recognized holidays

Parental leave

Educational reimbursement opportunities to support company objectives, continued learning, and career development

Lunar Outpost Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Lunar Outpost Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. All employees, including executives and human resources personnel, are expected to conduct themselves with professionalism and treat others with dignity and respect in accordance with this policy.