Senior Network and Infrastructure Engineer

About Seasats:

We are a nimble, highly technical business that provides defense, scientific, and commercial customers with maritime robotics solutions. Our primary products are autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) built to carry sensors at sea for months at a time.

The company is located in sunny San Diego and includes talented engineers, builders, tinkerers, and business architects. Internally, our work culture is hard working but fun. Externally, we’ve built a reputation for being professional, knowledgeable, and dedicated to getting the job done. For more info, check out seasats.com.

Role: Senior Network and Infrastructure Engineer

Location: San Diego, CA (in-office)

Salary: $140,000-160,000/ yr + stock options, 401k matching, relocation assistance within the U.S. (if applicable), and other benefits.

Role Overview:

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.

The Details:

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.

Specific tasks could include:

• 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

About You:

You love solving real-world problems and care deeply about building systems that work reliably. You live, breathe, thrive on, and geek out on large, interconnected data systems, and you’re not intimidated by the occasional late-night support call.

In addition:

• 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

Life at Seasats:

Along with your salary, you’ll receive perks including:

• Stock options
• 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

We’ll help you ramp up and will regularly take time to discuss what’s working and what’s not. We’re also big on personal freedoms: if you’re on top of your responsibilities and want the afternoon off to surf or spend time with friends and family, go for it! We have flexible hours, accommodating PTO, and a personable, high-achieving work culture. We want someone who’s excited to work hard and have fun in this environment.

Our values are listed below; we’re happy to explain them more during the interview process.

• Get Stuff Done
• Be Kind
• Fight Entropy
• Attack with Overwhelming Force
• Ask More Questions
• Lines, Not Dots

Hiring Notes:

If you decide to apply, you’ll be asked to provide a resume and answer a few screening questions. If we decide to move forward with your application, you can expect no more than 2-3 more rounds of virtual interviews before a final in-person interview. If you have to travel to San Diego, we’ll reimburse pre-approved travel costs.

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, so we encourage women, minorities, and people of all backgrounds to apply. 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!