Senior Platform Engineer; Infrastructure

Location

Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors — enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.

• Be the offset. We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.
• What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.
• It’s the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.

As a Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer you will be one of the first hires building the cloud infrastructure and tooling needed to scale our software operations across the company.

• Design, build, and operate foundational cloud infrastructure rolled out across the enterprise, owning significant systems end‑to‑end.
• Build and operate the foundational multi‑cloud environment, including account structure, guardrails, and shared networking and identity that every team builds on top of.
• Build the self‑service experience for engineering teams to provision accounts, bootstrap resources, and deploy onto paved roads, enabling rapid, governed development.
• Author and maintain reusable infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Terraform) that other teams use.
• Contribute to CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards that scale across the enterprise and help drive adoption.
• Create self‑service tooling and paved‑road patterns that let teams provision, deploy, and operate systems without a central queue.
• Evaluate and select cloud services, infrastructure tooling, and platforms, guiding build‑vs‑buy decisions based on capability, compliance, and speed to value.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers through code review, design discussion, and pairing.
• Partner with engineering, security, and IT teams to ensure infrastructure meets government security and compliance requirements across data classification levels.
• Leverage AI‑assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.

• 5+ years of software engineering, Dev Ops, SRE, or cloud engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
• Strong software background, with experience deploying, testing, releasing, and running production applications on cloud.
• Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with production workloads.
• Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Terraform) and authors reusable modules.
• Experience with modern CI/CD, continuous testing, and deployment practices.
• Ability to work across a broad technical surface area, moving between infrastructure, application development, and platform work.
• Depth in one or more of CI/CD and build/release tooling, cloud networking, infrastructure‑as‑code, or developer platforms, with familiarity across the rest.
• Trusted technical contributor who owns systems end‑to‑end, brings strong design judgment, and mentors juniors.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals (HTTP, ports, DNS, firewalls, cloud networking primitives).
• Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
• Comfort with autonomy in a fast‑paced environment where priorities shift.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a Top‑Secret security clearance.

• Enterprise experience building and operating infrastructure at scale in a high‑growth or large tech organization.
• Experience with containers and orchestration, service mesh, and artifact/registry management.
• Experience designing or improving developer experience or building core developer processes and automation.
• Familiarity with government cloud environments (AWS Gov Cloud, Azure Government) and authorization frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST 800‑53, IL4/IL5).
• Experience deploying infrastructure in government, defense, or regulated environments with security and compliance constraints.
• Experience designing or maintaining an enterprise network.
• Experience with observability, reliability engineering, IAM/secrets management.
• Experience using AI‑powered development tools to deliver production code and automate routine work.
• Background in developer tooling, platform engineering, or internal platform teams at high‑growth tech companies.
• Active U.S. Secret or Top‑Secret clearance.

Base Salary:
Denver – $120,000 – $170,000;
Long Beach – $125,000 – $180,000.

Equity and benefits include Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401(k), and parental leave.

Work location:

Long Beach, CA or Denver, CO. Hybrid schedule; at least 3 days per week on‑site required.

True Anomaly is committed to equal employment opportunity on any basis protected by applicable state and federal laws. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please let us know.