Senior Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer

Job Overview

Seasats builds autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) that deliver persistent maritime intelligence for defense, scientific, and commercial customers. This is an exciting opportunity to help scale the backend systems that support our growing fleet of field-deployed ASVs. 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 infrastructure / DevOps engineer who’s excited to learn the current system and work to make it ever more resilient and serviceable.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate cloud and on-prem infrastructure supporting Seasats services and vehicles


• Set up and monitor observability systems (metrics, logs, alerts) across servers, services, and deployed vehicles


• Support customer deliveries where Seasats software is deployed on customer-managed or air-gapped infrastructure


• Plan and implement system-level improvements to harden infrastructure, improve reliability, simplify maintenance, and enhance performance


• Respond to and help resolve urgent operational issues affecting customers or internal developers


• Support CI/CD tooling and release automation


• Occasionally support internal IT projects

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps and/or infrastructure engineering


• Strong proficiency working in Linux environments and operating Linux servers


• Experience managing databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, time-series systems) in production


• Comfort automating infrastructure and operations using Bash and Python


• Familiarity with security best practices: secrets management, access controls, certificate management, and hardening


• Basic understanding of networking: routing, NAT, VPNs, VLANs, firewalls, and secure access patterns


• Experience with CI/CD, provisioning, and configuration management

About Seasats

At Seasats, we're passionate about delivering maritime robotics solutions to redefine the maritime industry. Our primary products are autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), designed to carry sensors at sea for months at a time. Our ASVs provide persistent monitoring and data acquisition to defense, scientific, and commercial customers, and have autonomously crossed both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. After thousands of years in which the only way to gather information from the ocean was to put people on a boat, these uncrewed vessels are transforming how humanity monitors and interacts with the ocean.

Benefits

• 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