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Vast

Staff DevOps Engineer

Long Beach, CA · On-site

$188.60K - $267.70K/yr

Vast is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer, reporting to the Manager, DevOps & Platform, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial ...

IonQ

Senior Staff DevOps Engineer

Denver, CO · On-site

$133.80K - $171.90K/yr

We are looking for a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Quantum Platform Network Security Engineering Team. You'll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its ...

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Way2B1

Staff Devops Engineer

San Francisco, CA

$175K - $195K/yr

This is a hands-on Staff DevOps Engineer role responsible for designing, operating, and evolving a highly available, multi-tenant platform on AWS. You will work closely with software engineering to ...

IonQ

Senior Staff DevOps Engineer

Denver, CO · Hybrid

$133.80K - $171.90K/yr

We are looking for a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Quantum Platform Network Security Engineering Team. You'll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its ...

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Kaav Inc.

Staff DevOps Engineer

San Francisco, CA

$212.77K - $265.96K/yr

Staff DevOps Engineer, Core Infrastructure Engineering Locations: San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA Salary: * San Francisco - $212,768 - $265,960 USD * Los Angeles - $191,840 - $239,800 USD Type ...

Witness AI

Staff DevOps Engineer

Mountain View, CA · Hybrid

$234K - $257K/yr

Staff DevOps Engineer Mountain View, CA - Hybrid 2 days/week in office WitnessAI is the unified AI security and governance platform enterprises trust to govern and protect all AI activity. We provide ...

ARM

Staff DevOps Engineer

Austin, TX · Hybrid

$191.10K - $258.50K/yr

Staff DevOps Engineer We are looking for a dedicated Software and DevOps Engineer to join our team and have a significant impact in improving the engineering experience at Arm. Engineering IT ...

ARM

Staff DevOps Engineer

Austin, TX · Hybrid

$191.10K - $258.50K/yr

Staff DevOps Engineer We are looking for a dedicated Software and DevOps Engineer to join our team and have a significant impact in improving the engineering experience at Arm. Engineering IT ...

Cube Dev

Staff DevOps Engineer

San Francisco, CA

$62.25 - $85/hr

As a Staff DevOps Engineer at Cube, you will set the technical direction for the infrastructure that runs Cube Cloud and the agentic analytics platform behind it. You'll own complex, high-impact ...

ARM

Staff DevOps Engineer

Austin, TX · On-site

$191.10K - $258.50K/yr

Staff DevOps Engineer We are looking for a dedicated Software and DevOps Engineer to join our team and have a significant impact in improving the engineering experience at Arm. Engineering IT ...

Vast

Staff DevOps Engineer

Long Beach, CA

$188.60K - $267.70K/yr

Vast is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer, reporting to the Manager, DevOps & Platform, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial ...

Artisan

Staff Devops Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$62.25 - $85/hr

You'll own the full DevOps and infrastructure layer at Artisan. This is a staff-level role where you'll set the foundation, define the practices, and build the systems that everything else depends on.

MILLENNIUMSOFT

Staff DevOps Engineer

San Jose, CA

$61.75 - $84.75/hr

Job Title - Staff DevOps Engineer Location - San Jose, CA Duration - 6+ Months Contract Client: Medical Device Company Job Category: Engineering Level Of Experience: Seniority Level Employment Type:

Artisan

Staff Devops Engineer

San Francisco, CA

$62.25 - $85/hr

You'll own the full DevOps and infrastructure layer at Artisan. This is a staff-level role where you'll set the foundation, define the practices, and build the systems that everything else depends on.

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Staff DevOps Engineer

Vast

Long Beach, CA • On-site

$188.60K - $267.70K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 15 days ago

Job description

At Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. Vast is developing next-generation space stations 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. Using an incremental, hardware-rich and low-cost approach, Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station. 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, followed by additional Haven modules to enable permanent human presence by 2030. Our team is all-in, committed to executing our mission safely and on time. If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us.
Vast is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer, reporting to the Manager, DevOps & Platform, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.
This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
Responsibilities:
  • 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.

Minimum Qualifications:
  • 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.

Pay Range:
  • Senior DevOps Engineer: $159,000 - $226,980
  • Staff DevOps Engineer: $188,600 - $267,700

Pay Range: California
$159,000-$267,700 USD
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
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: 100% 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.
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a "U.S. person" as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Vast is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Vast is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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