At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team:
The IT team is responsible for the full scope of computing infrastructure, end-user systems, servers, virtualization, cloud, networking, software services, telecommunications, and information security. You’ll support every function across the company, from the production floor to flight operations, enabling Relativity’s world-class team to design, build, and launch rockets. The team balances near-term execution with long-term vision, developing scalable solutions and processes to enable the company's growth. The evolving complexity of our IT environment offers opportunities to stretch and sharpen problem solving and hands-on technical skills. We invest in our people, encouraging ownership, cross-training, and advancement, so our team can grow as fast and ambitiously as the company itself.
About the Role:
Every day, you’ll step in as a trusted partner ensuring that our internal customers feel confident that their work, innovations, and data are safe. You’ll help manage our security ticket queue, respond to alerts, and work collaboratively with IT Ops, Engineering, Security Engineers, and our 3rd-party SOC. You’ll have opportunities for growth and learning with this role as you partner with various teams and provide inputs on projects and everyday tasks.
- Own the Ticket Queue & Customer Partnership
- Triage incoming security requests and collaborate with internal
teams to understand their needs and deliver clear, actionable
guidance. - Coordinate handoffs and escalations with IT teams.
- Communicate effectively to keep customers informed from start to finish.
- Triage incoming security requests and collaborate with internal
- Investigate & Elevate Alerts
- Dive into SIEM, DLP, EDR, and other cybersecurity tooling to
validate alerts, and uncover security issues and misconfigurations. - Tune detection rules, streamline workflows, and contribute
innovative initiatives that make our defenses smarter, faster, and
more reliable. - Monitor threat intelligence feeds to identify potential
vulnerabilities and propose practical ideas and solutions to protect
our users and assets.
- Dive into SIEM, DLP, EDR, and other cybersecurity tooling to
- Document & Celebrate Wins
- Craft runbooks, ticket notes, and post-mortems that turn everyday
investigations into learning opportunities for the whole team. - Contribute to user facing knowledge bases
- Craft runbooks, ticket notes, and post-mortems that turn everyday
About You:
- Has a strong drive to provide excellent customer service and experience, with an awareness of task prioritization, stakeholder needs, and SLAs.
- Is resourceful and quick-thinking nature to troubleshoot new and critical technical issues as they arise.
- Experience with RBAC/ABAC (AD, Entra ID, Conditional Access)
- Administrative experience with SIEMs (Searching, Reporting, Alerting)
- Familiarity with other Security Tooling such as DLP, EDR, Vulnerabilitymanagement, SASE.
- Basic knowledge of Cloud computing and tooling (AWS, GCP, Azure,CSPM/CNAP, etc.)
- Writing and editing skills to aid in writing and updating procedural documents and documenting tickets
- Basic knowledge of SOC 2 reports, FEDRamp, ITGC
Nice to haves but not required:
- Have 3+ years in IT support or Sysadmin roles
- Have exposure to ITAR-compliant or “gov-cloud” environments
- Experience automating tasks in Python, PowerShell, or Bash
- Thrive in a startup or aerospace setting
- Hold (or are studying for) Security+, Network+, or A+
At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Relativity Space Long Beach, California, USA Office
We have two sites in Long Beach, CA's Space Beach: "The Wormhole," a 1M sq. ft. factory, once Boeing C-17's home. Nearby, "The Portal" supports Aeon R engine production for our Terran R launch vehicle.
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