Sr DevOps Engineer

relativity

Long Beach, California, United States · Long Beach · United States

Posted Jul 17, 2026

Other
Terrestrial Software

Job description

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:

Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and the universe beyond our planet. With decades of experience scaling world-class technology organizations like Google, CEO Eric Schmidt is guiding Relativity into its next phase: advancing Terran R toward launch and building the foundation for long-term impact.

The Terrestrial Software team is building the foundation for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform. Their mission is to automate and streamline workflows across the entire lifecycle of Terran R, from raw material intake to launch operations and eventually manufacturing on Mars. Today, that means partnering directly with teams across design, materials, manufacturing, and test and launch to design, implement, and deploy end user enterprise-wide applications, industrial automation, data analytics infrastructure, and next-generation AI to solve real problems and accelerate progress. Long term, the team is laying the groundwork for a modular, scalable software platform that can power highly autonomous operations on Earth and beyond. This is a team for builders and thinkers who thrive on cross-functional impact and want to shape the digital backbone of our future in space.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to join our growing team at our headquarters. In this role, you will be part of an SRE team supporting our company’s efforts in expanding our automation and development platform across our manufacturing teams. Your mission will be to design and implement our platform to enable seamless software deployments, maintenance, security and scalability, to champion and instill best practices and tools throughout the company and working closely with development and teams to support best practices and unlock scaled automation.

Support infrastructural growth across multiple sites (Cloud and On-Premises)
Ensure continued up-time on our services, processes, and infrastructure throughout the company and across all our sites
Develop roadmaps for automated software deployments across the company
Champion automation to reduce toil and increase development velocity
Help define and instrument Service-Level Objectives
Leverage Configuration Management to build and maintain consistency across services
Apply infrastructure-as-code methodologies across configuration, orchestration, and elsewhere

About You:

3+ years of Similar Site Reliability Engineering, Automation or DevOps role
Kubernetes ecosystem experience/familiarity
Proficient in cloud services and architectures (GCP preferred)
Knowledge of deployment and infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g., Helm, Terraform)

Nice to haves but not required:

Advanced proficiency with Kubernetes
Experience with deployments across cloud and on-premises environments
Familiarity with GitLab
Heavy experience with production monitoring, observability best practices and tools, log aggregation/analysis (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)
Experience with jFrog Artifactory
Knowledge of Configuration Management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, others)
Experience with MLOps or Machine Learning Frameworks

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.

Hiring Range:

$140,000—$214,000 USD

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.

If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at accommodations@relativityspace.com.

Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited submission - via email, our website, social media, or directly to an employee - will be deemed the property of Relativity Space, and no fee will be owed absent a current, fully executed agreement with Talent Acquisition that specifically authorizes submissions for the applicable role.