Staff DevOps Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States. The role is based at the Long Beach location and may require occasional evening or weekend work to support critical mission milestones. U.S. export-control eligibility is required: the candidate must be a U.S. person or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing.

Salary: $188,600–$267,700 per year for the Staff DevOps Engineer level in California.

Company

hirify.global develops next-generation commercial space stations and mission systems to support permanent human presence in space, microgravity research, manufacturing, and the emerging space economy.

What you will do

• Develop and support CI/CD pipelines that automate the build, testing, and release of frontend and backend mission software.
• Collaborate with Flight Software teams on release management and integrated testing across physical and simulated flight assets.
• Design, migrate, and operate secure, stable cloud environments for mission software services.
• Define operational requirements and reliability practices, including monitoring, service maintenance, and continuous uptime.
• Orchestrate chaos testing, load testing, and automated regression testing to validate service capabilities.
• Build an internal developer portal with runbooks, incident response management, an API registry, and service health metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or another engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of application development experience with Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience maintaining large-scale, high-criticality data systems measured in terabytes and kilohertz with strict SLAs.
• Extensive experience with cloud solutions and Terraform.
• Deep experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including administering, configuring, and operating multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong understanding of OSI and Linux networking, VPCs, transit gateways, subnetting, routing, prioritization, and cross-functional communication.

Nice to have

• Expertise in distributed Golang applications and Kafka cluster configuration.
• Experience setting incident-response and remediation strategies.
• Experience implementing SAST and SCA scanners for security and code-quality standards.
• Experience with self-hosted observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time exempt employment with company equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Paid time off, 20+ vacation days for exempt staff, and paid parental leave.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare, discounts, snacks, coffee, drinks, dinner meals, and subsidized lunch.