Role: Senior Network and Infrastructure Engineer
Location: San Diego, CA (in-office)
About Seasats
At Seasats, we're passionate about delivering maritime robotics solutions to redefine the maritime industry. Our primary products are autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), designed to carry sensors at sea for months at a time. Our ASVs provide persistent monitoring and data acquisition to defense, scientific, and commercial customers, and have autonomously crossed both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. After thousands of years in which the only way to gather information from the ocean was to put people on a boat, these uncrewed vessels are transforming how humanity monitors and interacts with the ocean. Here, you’ll find the space and opportunity to do your life’s best work.
Description
This is an exciting opportunity to help scale the backend systems that support our growing fleet of field-deployed robots. Seasats has autonomous vehicles in customer hands across the globe and is now aggressively scaling our vehicle production and deployment rates. We’re looking for an experienced DevOps engineer who’s excited to learn the current system and work to make it ever more resilient, serviceable, and awesome.
Seasats’ customers depend on our vehicles to complete high value (and at times dangerous) missions. The systems you’ll be managing cut across all of our products and services and as such are critical to the whole organization. Much of your work will be on the backend, but you’ll also contribute to systems that run on the vehicles themselves.
You’ll be reporting directly to our CTO and will be working closely with him and the rest of the software team. Over time you’ll be expected to take ownership of the system and operate autonomously, identifying and executing tasks that will sometimes be glamorous and rewarding but in other cases will be time-consuming and low-visibility to most of the team.
On a day-by-day basis you will:
- Setting up and monitoring diagnostic systems for Seasats servers and vehicles
- Planning and implementing system level improvements that harden the system, make it easier to monitor, facilitate maintenance, and improve its performance
- Responding to urgent service calls on off hours if customers, servers, vehicles, or Seasats developers run into problems (hopefully rare)
- Quickly implementing bug fixes & following up with stable, well-designed resolutions
- Deploying VPS resources, implementing resource clusters, designing and implementing APIs and network infrastructure for developer or customer use
- Thinking about the company’s scaling needs and staying one step ahead
- Proactively identifying & mitigating risks
- Experimenting with next generation hardware, software, or configurations for future integration
Minimum Qualifications
- You have a large amount of experience with networking, data layers, databases, servers, and server management
- You’re comfortable with routing, NAT, port forwarding, VPNs, VLANs, firewalls
- You have experience with industry-standard security protocols and measures
- You know how to create and manage Docker images and containers
- You’re unintimidated by Bash / Python scripting
- You’re not devastated by the need to support legacy systems while developing new ones
- You enjoy the occasional office IT project
Pay and Benefits
Salary: $160,000-$210,000/ yr base + stock options.
Along with your salary, you’ll receive perks including:
- Competitive insurance (including a 99% employer-covered Gold HMO plan or other options)
- 401k matching up to 4% of salary
- Four free lunches per week
- An employee activity fund
- A pet-friendly office
- Unlimited/Flex PTO
Hiring Notes:
When you apply, you’ll be asked to provide a resume and answer a few screening questions.
Please note that we are currently unable to sponsor employment visas, so candidates must be independently authorized to work in the United States.
We appreciate diverse perspectives and life experiences, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We look forward to reviewing your application!
Top Skills
What We Do
Seasats builds and operates high-endurance, user-friendly autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) that collect data for defense, research, and commercial customers. Seasats vehicles carry sensors into places that are either too dangerous or too expensive to reach with crewed vessels, drastically reducing operational risks and costs
