Infrastructure Engineer
Torrance, CA, Washington D.C.Full-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Core individual contributor role on the Northwood Infrastructure team, operating defined scope independently with depth in at least one area. Responsible for building, operating, and automating the Northwood infrastructure stack and collaborating across infra, product engineering, and ground station operations.
Responsibilities
- Own and operate one or more components of the Northwood infrastructure stack (CI/CD, app platform, cloud/IaC, networking, observability, security tooling). Take a defined scope and execute without ongoing oversight.
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code. Default to Terraform, Helm, and GitOps.
- Carry on-call for the infra stack. Handle the majority of incidents to resolution independently.
- Run post-incident reviews for incidents you owned.
- Partner with security engineering and compliance on controls implementation in your areas - Vault policies, IAM boundaries, SIEM coverage, evidence collection.
- Treat toil as a design signal. When manual work repeats, automate it or fix the underlying system.
- Write and maintain runbooks, design docs, and component documentation. Keep them current with the system.
- Collaborate across infra, product engineering, and ground station operations on cross-cutting work.
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of production infrastructure experience (SRE, DevOps, platform, network, or systems engineering).
- Working competence across: Linux, networking fundamentals, AWS or equivalent cloud, infrastructure as code (Terraform), containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling. Not expert in all — competent enough to operate and contribute.
- Demonstrated ownership of a production system end-to-end: design, implementation, operation.
- On-call experience in a production environment with measurable reliability outcomes.
- Comfortable in code (Python, Go, or similar) for automation, tooling, and integration work.
- Strong technical writing — design docs, runbooks, post-mortems.
Skills
Required:Infrastructure as codeLinuxNetworkingCloud (AWS or equivalent)KubernetesCI/CDObservability toolingPython/Go or similar
Benefits
- n/a
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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