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Senior Product Operations Engineer, Space

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)Full-time$183k–$243k2026-11-06 → 2026-11-10
No visa sponsorship

Core

Senior technical anchor for a classified, air-gapped networking infrastructure supporting U.S. Space Force Space Domain Awareness missions.

Role type

Senior IC Product Operations Engineer (Security & Infrastructure)

Builds

Resilient, software-defined, distributed mesh networking layer for critical Space Domain Awareness data

Domain

Defense / Space Systems / Classified Networking

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes, Linux, STIG compliance, Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Puppet/Terraform), Bash/Python scripting, Observability (Splunk/ELK/Open Search), Incident Response, Security Hardening

Preferred skills

Military background, COMSEC/HAIPE experience, Networking certifications (CCNA), Go/Rust/Java

Technologies

Kubernetes, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Bash, Python, Splunk, ELK, Open Search, Linux, Git

Responsibilities

Stand up and harden classified Linux infrastructure in air-gapped environments; Enforce STIG compliance and system hardening standards; Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code; Provide 24x7 on-call incident response and root-cause analysis; Collaborate with Mission Ops and TPMs to validate operational readiness; Serve as technical subject matter expert and first point of contact for customer sites.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC