Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

Orbitworks is revolutionizing access to space by building reliable, shareable satellites that drastically reduce the time and complexity traditionally required to get to orbit. We operate satellites, fly customer payloads, and handle entire missions from end-to-end. Orbitworks is a joint venture between Marlan Space (UAE-based) and Loft Orbital.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on our Infrastructure Team, you'll play a pivotal role in maintaining and scaling our ground segment infrastructure. You'll collaborate across development, operations, and IT to ensure the integration, delivery, and reliability of services that support our test infrastructure and our space operations on Earth and in orbit.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and help build modern automated space infrastructure. This is not your typical SRE role, we apply DevOps principles even to spacecraft control.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers, test engineers and satellite operators to foster a strongSatDevOps culture.
• Design and roll-out cloud solutions for ourtesting and operations infrastructure. Find the best trade-offs between existing and additional cloud resources toscaleand help Orbitworks achieve its mission.
• Design, implement, and maintainscalable, reliable, and secure infrastructurein a hybrid cloud environment.
• Improve ourdeveloper and test engineers experienceby building better tools, workflows, and environment to streamline
• Lead efforts to automate and optimize systems, includingCI/CD pipelines,infrastructure provisioning (IaC), and deployment workflows for test on the ground and operations in space.
• Own and evolve ourobservability stack(metrics, tracing, logs) to improve usability and performance. Grafana-centric ecosystems are a plus.
• Implement and advocate forbest practicesin software reliability, fault tolerance, and performance tuning.
• Proactivelyidentify, investigate, and resolve system reliability issues, performing root cause analyses and implementing long-term fixes.
• Partner with teams to design and operateSoftware Defined Network (SDN)solutions.
• Contribute to acollaborative and inclusive team culturewhere respectful debate and continuous learning are celebrated.
• Initially,handle and manage the link between cloud and network/software/hardwareinfrastructure. Assume I&T (Information technology)

responsibilities

as much as necessary to start with.

Must Haves

• Strong experience withpublic cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP.
• Deep expertise inKubernetes, architecture, deployment, ops, and resource optimization.
• Demonstrated ability todesign and build scalable, highly available systems.
• Familiarity withSoftware Defined Networking (SDN)concepts and tools.
• Experience implementing and maintainingobservability stacks(Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, etc.).
• Proficiency in at least one backend language:Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, or Java.
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience w…

Orbitworks' mission is to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space. Building on Loft Orbital's heritage, Orbitworks will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites. Orbitworks aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually and operates out of a 50,000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi.