At Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. We are building artificial gravity space stations, allowing long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven-1, scheduled to be the world’s first commercial space station when it launches into low-Earth orbit in 2026. It is part of our stepping stone approach to continuous human presence in LEO. Our team is all-in, committed to executing our mission safely and on time. If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us.
Vast is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Security, reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Engineering, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.
This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
Responsibilities:
- Work with team to design, implement, and maintain a wide variety of backends, tools, and pipelines directly in support of Vast’s mission-critical security services.
- Partner with various engineering teams to assist in the implementation and design of their security-sensitive features and services.
- Influence and adopt practices and patterns for security and software that will scale to what will eventually become a very large codebase and team.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, or other engineering discipline.
- 6+ years experience with building security services and configurations (i.e. IAM, short-lived certificates, API security).
- Deep security knowledge in one or more domains (i.e. cryptography, network security, infrastructure security).
- Development experience in any modern programming language (including but not limited to Python, C++, Rust, Go).
- Experience building, shipping, and supporting security applications in the cloud.
- Proficiency using the command line, writing shell scripts, and an understanding of the GNU/Linux operating system.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Experience working on ambiguous problems.
- Production DevOps experience (Docker and K8s preferred).
- Experience working with multiple programming languages.
- Experience with API Design.
- Deep security knowledge in one or more domains.
- Confident communicator, both written and verbal.
- Collaborative mindset.
- Problem solver with a bias for action.
Pay Range:
Senior Security Software Engineer - $155,000 - $196,000
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
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What We Do
Vast is developing artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system.
Vast’s mission is to enable large populations of humans to live and work in space, permanently.
Our solar system has the resources and room for humanity to thrive and expand without destroying Earth’s biosphere. Unlocking these resources requires in-space infrastructure and industry at an unprecedented scale.
We are building a world-class team to engineer the human experience in space.
Why Work With Us
We're developing artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system in order to enable large populations to live and work in space. Not only is what we're working on groundbreaking, but the team prides itself on living by our values of respect, curiosity, action, and excellence making it a lot more fun to achieve our goal.
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