\# What You’ll Be Doing
Design, automate, deploy, and operate highly reliable cloud systems supporting mission-critical workloads for U.S. Government customers. This role is centered on \*\*DevSecOps\*\* and \*\*site reliability engineering\*\* , with a strong emphasis on \*\*deployment automation, operational stability, and system resilience\*\* across AWS GovCloud and AWS C2E environments.
You will be responsible for continuously improving the reliability and operability of Quindar’s platform in production, ensuring systems are observable, fault-tolerant, and require minimal manual intervention. Your work will directly impact mission success by improving system uptime, deployment velocity, and operational confidence in constrained and classified environments.
A key focus of this role is building and evolving \*\*automated deployment pipelines, hardened runtime environments, and repeatable infrastructure patterns\*\* that support secure and scalable operations in regulated environments.
You will also support and improve Quindar deployments to air-gapped networks, driving consistency, reliability, and performance across all environments. As the organization grows, you will help define and implement best practices for availability, latency, incident response, and service-level objectives (SLOs).
This role includes participation in incident response and a 24/7 on-call rotation, with a strong mandate to \*\*eliminate toil through automation\*\* and continuously improve system reliability.
You will collaborate closely with frontend, backend, and platform engineers to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and mission assurance requirements.
\# Technical Skills
\- Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production environments
\- Hands-on experience operating clusters in AWS EKS, Rancher, or similar platforms
\- Experience supporting GovCloud, IL-enclave, or C2E environments
\- Deep experience with CI/CD systems and deployment automation (GitLab preferred)
\- Proficiency in Python and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform or similar)
\- Experience with observability platforms (Grafana LGTM stack, Datadog, or equivalent)
\- Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, databases, caching, and event-driven architectures
\- Solid networking fundamentals (VPCs, VPNs, load balancers, TLS, service connectivity)
\- Experience with Linux/Unix systems
\- Familiarity with cloud security best practices, enclave boundaries, and secure system design
\- Experience with identity and access management (AWS IAM, Auth0, Keycloak, ICAM patterns)
\- Strong Git fundamentals and experience supporting deployments across multiple classification levels
\# Qualifications
\- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
\- 3+ years of professional experience as an SRE, DevOps, reliability, infrastructure, or platform engineer
\- Active U.S. Security Clearance preffered
\- Experience working toward ATO/authorization in federal, DoD, or IC environments preferred
\- Experience supporting deployments in GovCloud, C2S/C2E, or IL-enclave environments highly desirable
\# \*\*ITAR REQUIREMENTS\*\*
\- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR \here\.
\# Why you'll love working at Quindar
\- We work in a cutting edge industry and you will get the opportunity to be part of a small team with a large direct impact on the success of our customers’ space missions!
\- 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.
\- Annually we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.
\- Our culture and company is evolving. You will be key in creating the next major or minor version!
Role details (from YC):
Compensation: $160K - $200K
Experience: Any (new grads ok)
Visa: US citizen/visa only