Have you seen Apollo 13, The Martian, or Armageddon and recall all of the NASA engineers in a room with a bunch of monitors? Quindar is digitizing that away. Satellites are flying servers in space and we are revolutionizing the future of spacecraft operations by building the DataDog for space.

Our team has worked at SpaceX, OneWeb, Lockheed Martin, Iridium, Boeing, AWS, and RedHat. We've operated dozens of satellites, worked on broadband and earth observation constellations, and serviced commercial and government users. We are using lessons learned from our previous aerospace and startup experiences to revolutionize the space industry and enable access to space without being an expert.

What You’ll Be Doing 👨‍💻👩‍💻 🛰 🛰

Architect, automate, test, deploy, and maintain a well-designed and highly available software infrastructure deployed in Kubernetes within cloud or on-premises environments. Implement practices to enable DevSecOps with a focus on security and compliance for SOC2, NIST 800-171, and FedRAMP Medium controls.

You will own the Kubernetes deployment strategy and work with the software development team to ensure a successful architecture and software product. You will help develop secure ingress and egress to customer and vendor data centers in a multi and single-tenant environment. As the team is developing, you will also provide best practices for availability, latency, and performance of services.

You will spend time working directly with Quindar’s customers to ensure successful architecture deployment to both cloud environments and offline or secure facilities while ensuring alignment to a clean infrastructure vision.

This is a hybrid role with 2-3 days in-office in Irvine, CA or Arvada, CO. We aim to maximize benefits of having in-person collaboration spaces while also working on a flexible schedule with a large amount of remote work!

Tech Skills:

• Expertise managing Kubernetes-based architecture and providing platform infrastructure in a production environment
• Strong proficiency developing Infrastructure as Code (IAC) solutions using Terraform or alternative tools
• Proficiency in Python and experience working with software teams developing distributed microservice software capabilities
• Working knowledge of monitoring tools such as New Relic, DataDog, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch or similar
• Familiarity with cloud services in AWS (preferred) / Azure / GCP and ability to make trades on cloud native vs self-hosted software capabilities
• Working knowledge of monitoring tools such as New Relic, DataDog, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch or similar
• Understanding of networking using VPN’s, NLB/ALB’s, HTTPS, TLS, and CDN
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containerized applications, and serverless architecture
• Strong knowledge of designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting APIs services, distributed NoSQL and relational databases, caching systems, event-driven and multi-tier architectures
• Strong knowledge of task automation and CI/CD pipeline building, preferably with GitHub actions but not required
• Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and cost-effective cloud architecture
• Use of identity and access management via Auth0 or Okta
• Familiarity with Git and GitHub or similar framework for version control

Soft Skills:

• Deep technical analysis and troubleshooting skills
• Independent self-starter; able to complete projects on time with minimal guidance
• A high standard for software maintainability, quality, resilience, and performance
• Strong communications skills and ability to engage effectively across development teams, program management, and customers

Background Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• 3+ years of professional experience as a reliability, systems, DevOps, infrastructure, or platform engineer
• Active U.S. Security Clearance (TS/SCI)

Why you'll love working at Quindar

• We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.
• Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.
• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.
• We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.
• Each quarter we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, and San Diego.
• Our culture and company is evolving. You will be key in creating the next major or minor version!

Quindar is looking for candidates that like using modern software tools, cloud based services, and architecting software designs. Our frontend is built with React on top of Hasura deployed with Terraform on AWS GovCloud. We have a microservice architecture powered by Python and rely heavily on CI/CD processes.

Aerospace experts are NOT required to help build out our platform. We are looking for candidates that want to build software that tracks, contacts, and operates hundreds of flying computers in space that operate on different operating systems for various customers.