At Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. Vast is developing next-generation space stations to ensure a continuous human presence in space for America and its allies, enabling advanced microgravity research and manufacturing, and unlocking a new space economy for government, corporate, and private customers. Using an incremental, hardware-rich and low-cost approach, Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station.

Haven Demo’s 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft. Next, Haven-1 is expected to become the world’s first commercial space station when it launches, followed by additional Haven modules to enable permanent human presence by 2030. Our team is all-in, committed to executing our mission safely and on time.

If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us. Vast is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer, reporting to the Manager, DevOps Platform, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations. This will be a full-time , exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities

: Develop and support CI/CD pipelines, automating the build, test, and release of frontend and backend applications for the Mission Software Team. Collaborate with Flight Software teams to streamline release management and integrated testing between physical and simulated flight assets and the supporting mission software. Design and help operate a highly secure and stable cloud environment to support in-flight missions with the suite of mission software services.

Assist in the initial design of this environment as well as the migration of deployed services from development environments to the mission environment.

Requirements

and procedures for mission software services and take ownership of reliability engineering; ensure the proper tooling is in place for monitoring and maintaining continuous uptime. Regularly exercise our services capabilities by orchestrating chaos testing, load testing, and automated regression testing. Build and expand on an internal developer portal that includes runbooks, incident response management, centralized API registry, service health metrics, and more.

Work cross-functionally with other teams at Vast including InfoSec and IT. Help build the technical and cultural groundwork for a DevOps organization at Vast.

Minimum Qualifications

: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or other engineering discipline. 3+ years of experience in application development with Python, Go, or Javascript/Typescript. Experience maintaining large-scale data systems (measured in TB and kHz) with strict SLAs and high criticality.

Extensive experience developing and managing solutions in the cloud using Terraform. Deep experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes; should be able to confidently administer, configure, and operate a multi-tenant Kubernetes cluster. ).

Ability to effectively triage priorities, communicate initiatives and timelines, and promote DevOps skills and culture within a fast-paced organization. Preferred Skills Experience: Expertise in building and testing distributed Golang applications. Expertise in optimally configuring and maintaining Kafka clusters.

Expertise in setting strategy for incident response and remediation. Experience driving security and code quality standards through automated scanners applied to the codebase (SAST + SCA). Experience with self-hosted observability instrumentation in distributed systems (e.