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 #Next Leap 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 Git Ops 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 SLAsDesign, 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 Open Telemetry for comprehensive monitoring and alerting

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Dev Ops, or a related discipline Kubernetes administration experience with elevated cluster access in production environments  Strong software development experience in one or mo reprogramming 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 Git Ops 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 Open Telemetry instrumentation and observability platforms  Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, or CKS)  Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions,…